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Gould Stephen Jay:     more books (101)

The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay Gould by Stephen Jay Gould, 2007-05-17 A Desert Calling: Life in a Forbidding Landscape by Michael A. Mares, 2002-05-14 Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould, 1992-04-17 The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould, 1992-08-17 Ontogeny and Phylogeny by Stephen Jay Gould, 1985-01-17 The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould, 2002-03-21 The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded) by Stephen Jay Gould, 1996-06-17 Stephen Jay Gould and the Politics of Evolution by David F. Prindle, 2009-05-26 Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville: A Lifelong Passion for Baseball by Stephen Jay Gould, 2004-05 Stephen Jay Gould: Reflections on His View of Life by Patricia Kelley, Robert Ross, 2008-11-05 An Urchin in the Storm: Essays About Books and Ideas by Stephen Jay Gould, 1988-10-17 Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould, 1992-07-17 Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould, 1990-09-17 Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life by Stephen Jay Gould, 2002-02-26

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1. Stephen Jay Gould
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2. Stephen Jay Gould - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
   Stephen Jay Gould. Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 May 20, 2002) was a New York-born American paleontologist and writer of popular science.  
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   Extractions: Other languages: Deutsch Svenska From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Stephen Jay Gould September 10 May 20 ) was a New York -born American paleontologist and writer of popular science . Born Jewish, he did not formally practice any organized religion. He served as a member of the faculty at Harvard University beginning in 1967. Toward the end of his life he served as the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at that university. With Niles Eldredge he proposed in the theory of punctuated equilibrium , wherein evolutionary change occurs relatively rapidly in comparatively brief periods of environmental stress, separated by longer periods of evolutionary stability. According to Gould, this overthrew a key tenet of neo-Darwinism ; according to most evolutionary biologists, his theory was an important insight but merely modified neo-Darwinism in a way fully compatible with what had been known before. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide")

3. Stephen Jay Gould
   Stephen Jay Gould. America s premier science writer talks about the battles over evolution, the importance of dinosaur lunch boxes  
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   Extractions: Learn about paid content on MotherJones.com Public Information, Private Profit? Closing a 40-Year Gap Taking Back the Dial America's premier science writer talks about the battles over evolution, the importance of dinosaur lunch boxes, and why no one's likely to top Ty Cobb's batting average. By Michael Krasny January/February 1997 Issue W ith more than 15 books in print, including Wonderful Life and The Mismeasure of Man , Stephen Jay Gould has been called the dean of popular science writers. A professor of geology and zoology at Harvard University, Gould is best known for his writings on dinosaurs and his talent for explaining evolutionary science in lay terms. In his latest book, Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin , Gould, in typical contrarian fashion, argues that our assumptions about trends and evolutionary progress are wrong using eclectic examples, like the disappearance of .400 hitting in baseball, as proof. In an interview with

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5. Stephen Jay Gould
   Stephen Jay Gould. Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 May 20, 2002) was a New York-born American paleontologist and writer of popular science.  
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   Extractions: Main Page See live article Alphabetical index Stephen Jay Gould September 10 May 20 ) was a New York -born American paleontologist and writer of popular science . Born Jewish , he did not formally practice any organized religion; he was to some degree an admirer of Marxism , although he was by no means a communist. With Niles Eldredge he proposed in the theory of punctuated equilibrium , wherein evolutionary change occurs relatively rapidly in comparatively brief periods of environmental stress, separated by longer periods of evolutionary stability. According to Gould, this overthrew a key tenet of neo-Darwinism ; according to most evolutionary biologists, his theory was an important insight but merely modified neo-Darwinism in a way fully compatible with what had been known before. Table of contents 1 Gould as known to the general public

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   gould stephen jay . Page 1 sur 1. Plus de résultats avec MSN pour gould stephen jay .  
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   Extractions: Accueil MSN Mon MSN Hotmail Rechercher ... S'abonner   Encarta Premium Rechercher Encarta R©sultats de la recherche pour "Gould Stephen Jay" Page sur 1 R©serv© aux abonn©s MSN Encarta Premium. Gould, Stephen Jay Encyclop©die EncartaArticle Gould, Stephen Jay (1941-2002), pal©ontologue am©ricain, auteur d’une contribution novatrice aux th©ories de l’©volution et vulgarisateur talentueux... plan de l'article Pr©sentation Les « ©quilibres ponctu©s » La croisade contre l’anthropocentrisme Le talent de la vulgarisation ... Stephen Jay Gould Encyclop©die EncartaImage Pal©ontologue de renomm©e internationale, coauteur d'une th©orie originale de l'©volution (la th©orie des ©quilibres ponctu©s), Stephen Jay Gould... ©volution biologique Encyclop©die EncartaArticle Trouv© dans l'article ©volution biologique science Encyclop©die EncartaArticle Trouv© dans l'article science R©serv© aux abonn©s MSN Encarta Premium. Page sur 1

7. Powells.com Interviews - Stephen Jay Gould
   Stephen Jay Gould, From Brachiopods to Baseball Doug Brown, Powells.com It s hard to have a discussion of popular natural history  
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   Extractions: Doug Brown , Powells.com It's hard to have a discussion of popular natural history and evolution literature without mentioning Stephen Jay Gould. The Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Geology at Harvard, his essays have been collected in a number of books, including The Panda's Thumb and The Lying Stones of Marrakech . He has written more extensively about the fallacies of biological determinism in The Mismeasure of Man , early life on earth in Wonderful Life , and the myth of evolution as progress in Full House

8. Stephen Jay Gould Review
   October 16, 1995, Monday, Late Edition Final HEADLINE BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Asking Big Questions On Science and Meaning By STEPHEN JAY gould stephen jay Gould  
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   Extractions: I regard the Southwestern desert of the United States as the most fiercely beautiful real estate on earth. Many human cultures have passed through, vied for and settled in this magnificence, but most have rested lightly (with a few exceptions, most harshly the bright green lawns of Anglo mansions, for no vegetation could be less appropriate to the landscape or more wasteful of precious water in the desert). Seen from a distance, Hopi towns on the mesa tops look like horizontal layers of sedimentary rock, with ladders protruding from kivas as the only clear evidence of human construction for the uppermost stratum. Science has also entered this region of maximal diversity by building institutions as varied in purpose as Los Alamos, for the superior prosecution of war, and the Santa Fe Institute, for better understanding of complexity. George Johnson, until recently an editor at The New York Times, has lived in the various scientific subcultures of the region, and has studied the primary local alternatives of American Indian, Hispanic and Anglo origin. He uses this maximal diversity to ask the most important of all questions about the power and social impact of science: "Do the patterns found by the scientific subcultures of Santa Fe and Los Alamos hold some claim to universal truth, or would a visitor from a distant galaxy consider them as culturally determined as those divined by the Tewa and Penitentes?"

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10. Stephen Jay Gould
    Stephen Jay Gould. That Stephen Jay Gould died their kind available in English. Nobody could write a science essay like Stephen Jay Gould.  
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    Extractions: That Stephen Jay Gould died just as his magnum opus appeared in print would seem to confirm (in a poetic way he would have liked, had someone else died) one of his most dearly-held axioms: that evolutionary forces such as natural selection are random. Yet in the two years preceding his death, Gould published not only his great work, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory , but a collection of essays ( I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History ), and a book in which he attempted to reconcile evolutionary science with religion ( Rock of Ages ). It is difficult not to see all this in hindsight as the trajectory of a man on a mission, one whose time was short. And Gould had more intimations of mortality than many - he had lived with the lung cancer mesothelioma for 20 years. Typically, he had used the disease as inspiration for an essay titled "The Median Isn't the Message," in which he explained how statistics had convinced him to keep fighting even though the median survival rate was a mere six months following diagnosis. (He had observed that although half of those with the disease survive longer than six months, the median says nothing about how long they survive. His case must, nevertheless, have represented an outlier.) Was his death at this exact moment ironic, death when triumph was nigh? Was it providential, stifling critics in the face of grief, and boosting sales? Was it an act of will, a great mind driving a sickened body to the finish line? Or was it just another random die-off?

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    encyclopedia article about Stephen Jay Gould. Stephen Jay Gould in Free online English dictionary, thesaurus and encyclopedia. Stephen Jay Gould.  
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12. Presidential Lectures: Stephen Jay Gould: Introduction
    Includes biographical and bibliographical information, excerpts of various writings, reviews of gould's books, links to offsite interviews with gould, commentary on gould and his work (both his writings and his theories in the field of paleontology), and links to further related resources on the 'net.  
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    Extractions: Photo from: University of Michigan Windows to the Universe Perhaps more than any other contemporary American scientist Stephen Jay Gould has presented the modes, implications, benefits, and shortcomings of science to a literate public. As an inventive and productive scholar he has shaped and participated in crucial debates of the biological and geological sciences, particularly with regard to the theory of evolution, the interpretation of fossil evidence, and the meaning of diversity and change in biology. As the readership for his nearly twenty books and hundreds of essays, reviews, and articles has grown he has become one of the most popular and well-known writers and lecturers on scientific topics. He has distinguished himself by elaborating his critique of contemporary evolutionary theory via an eclectic range of discourse, deriving inspiration from his personal reflections across an astonishing array of historical and humanistic disciplines, popular culture, and sports. Gould's empirical field studies have concentrated on fossil mollusks and snails found in Bermuda. His first major monographic work, Ontogeny and Phylogeny (1977), treated the theory of recapitulation in evolutionary biology. His second

13. Salon: Stephen Jay Gould
    "Staggering our certainties" about humanity's place at the top of the heap. By SCOTT ROSENBERG. In the popular mind, Darwin's great discovery was that apes were our ancestors. To stephen jay gould  
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    Extractions: "Staggering our certainties" about humanity's place at the top of the heap By SCOTT ROSENBERG In the popular mind, Darwin's great discovery was that apes were our ancestors. To Stephen Jay Gould, that's not the half of it. The Darwinian ideas that people really have a hard time embracing, he maintains, are the implications of natural selection a theory that explains the development of Homo sapiens without reference to any sort of divine plan or vision of progress. Woven through much of Gould's writing, and at the heart of his new "Full House," is an insistent demand that we "cash out" the deepest implications of Darwin's insights and begin to comprehend that our species, far from being the pinnacle of some inevitable trend in nature toward greater complexity, is simply a tiny accident occurring on a minor side-branch of the evolutionary tree. In his 1991 "Wonderful Life," which is a sort of companion to "Full House," Gould used the example of the Cambrian explosion of species found in the fossils of the Burgess Shale to demonstrate that "contingency" accident, happenstance, the particular way that events unfold plays a central role in determining the fate of species. Rewind the tape of events to play evolution out once more, Gould argues, and the odds are against anything like Homo sapiens developing. We're here because we're here not because we had to be here.

14. Biography: Stephen Jay Gould
    audio interview. related sites. main " stephen jay gould. stephen jay gould grew up in New York City  
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    Extractions: - Stephen Jay Gould Stephen Jay Gould grew up in New York City. He graduated from Antioch College and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1967. Since then he has been Professor of Geology and Zoology at Harvard University. He considers himself primarily a palaeont ologist and an evolutionary biologist, though he teaches geology and the history of science as well. A frequent and popular speaker on the sciences, his published work includes Ontogeny and Phylogeny, a scholarly study of the theory of recapitulation; The Mismeasure of Man (Penguin 1983), winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for 1982; the popular collections of essays Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History (Penguin 1980), which received great acclaim: 'Unreservedly, they are brilliant' - New Scientist;

15. Presidential Lectures: Stephen Jay Gould: Excerpts
    stephen jay gould ON And that just doesn t work. . From stephen jay gould (Interview by Michael Krasny). Mother Jones (Jan.Feb. 1997) 60-63.  
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    Extractions: 1) Evolutionary Biology Today "Evolutionary biology has been severely hampered by a speculative style of argument that records anatomy and ecology and then tries to construct historical or adaptive explanations for why this bone looked like that or why this creature lived here. These speculations have been charitably called "scenarios"; they are often more contemptuously, and rightly, labeled "stories" (or "just-so stories" if they rely on the fallacious assumption that everything exists for a purpose). Scientists know that these tales are stories; unfortunately, they are presented in the professional literature where they are taken too seriously and literally. Then they become "facts" and enter the popular literature, often in such socially dubious form as the ancestral killer ape who absolves us from responsibility for our current nastiness, or as the "innate" male dominance that justifies cultural sexism as the mark of nature." Dance of the Tiger: A Novel of the Ice Age . N.Y.: Random House, 1980. Pp. xvii-xviii. (c)1980, Random House, Inc.

16. Stephen Jay Gould Books (book Reviews)
    Book reviews by Danny Yee.  
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    Extractions: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History See also my review of The Dynamics of Evolution: The Punctuated Equilibrium Debate in the Natural and Social Sciences , which contains one paper by Gould and others which mention him. And I comment on Daniel Dennett's attack on Gould in my review of Darwin's Dangerous Idea Related authors: Richard Lewontin and Steven Rose Subjects Titles Authors ...

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18. The New York Review Of Books: Stephen Jay Gould
    Bibliography of books and articles by stephen jay gould, from The New York Review of Books. stephen jay gould. stephen jay gould teaches Geology, Biology, and the History of Science at Harvard and is the Vincent  
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    Extractions: @import "/css/default.css"; Home Your account Current issue Archives ... NYR Books Stephen Jay Gould teaches Geology, Biology, and the History of Science at Harvard and is the Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at NYU. His latest book is The Lying Stones of Marrakech . (October 2001) October 4, 2001 The Man Who Set the Clock Back The Map that Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology by Simon Winchester October 22, 1998 The Man Who Invented Natural History Buffon by Jacques Roger, translated by Sarah Lucille Bonnefoi October 9, 1997 Evolutionary Psychology: An Exchange August 14, 1997 'Darwinian Fundamentalism': An Exchange June 26, 1997 Evolution: The Pleasures of Pluralism June 12, 1997 Darwinian Fundamentalism April 4, 1996 Why Darwin? Charles Darwin: Voyaging by Janet Browne October 5, 1995 THE CASE FOR THE KID April 20, 1995 GREAT SPORT March 2, 1995 Ball Four by Jim Bouton, edited by Leonard Schecter My Life in Baseball: The True Record by Ty Cobb, by Al Stump Cobb: A Biography by Al Stump, foreword by Jimmie Reese

19. Stephen Jay Gould - (1941 - 2002)
    Life of prominent evolutionary biologist stephen jay gould.  
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    Extractions: Stephen Jay Gould, Harvard's outspoken and often controversial paleontologist whose groundbreaking work on evolutionary theory - coupled with his award-winning writings - brought an expanded world of science to thousands of readers, died this morning in Manhattan of metastasized lung cancer. He was 60. Gould, along with Niles Eldredge, a paleontologist at the New York's Museum of Natural History, developed an evolutionary theory called "punctuated equilibrium," where long periods of evolutionary stability are broken by shorter spurts of evolutionary change, perhaps sparked by external events such as climate change or the impact of a comet. The theory contrasts with more traditional evolutionists, who believe evolution is a slow, steady process occurring at a nearly constant rate. Gould, the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, spent his professional career at Harvard. He wrote widely on topics ranging from baseball to the Piltdown Man hoax to the Sept. 11 tragedy. He appeared on the cover of Newsweek in 1982 and has been called by colleagues "the bulldog of evolutionary biology" for his outspoken advocacy of his views.

20. Online NewsHour: Conversation With Stephen Jay Gould -- November 26, 1996
    An interview with paleontologist and author stephen jay gould conducted in 1996, at Online NewsHour. A RealAudio format version of the interview is also available at this website.  
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    Extractions: Browse the Online NewsHour's science coverage or Gergen Dialogues Gould's final essay for Natural History of a twenty-seven-year series. DAVID GERGEN, : Steve, you’ve written this very challenging book about evolution, challenging the notions that are in our heads. Maybe we ought to start with what the conventional notion is about evolution. STEPHEN JAY GOULD, Author, Full House : The conventional view is more a result of what western culture makes us want to think and what actually happened in the history of life. Darwin’s theory in natural selection doesn’t make any reference to any notion of progress, or development or increasing complexity. It’s only a theory about adaptation to changing environments. There are as many ways to adapt to local environments by becoming less complex is by getting more complex, but for reasons of our history and our biases and our preferences, we very much want to spin doctor that theory and make it appear as though the history of life is a predictable rise to increasing complexity and progress I think so that we can validate ourselves as the crown of creation.

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