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Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould, 1997-09-16
The Science and Humanism of Stephen Jay Gould by Richard York, Brett Clark, 2010-08-01
The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould, 1987-01-17
I Have Landed: Splashes adn Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould, 2010-09-28
Punctuated Equilibrium by Stephen Jay Gould, 2007-05-31
Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould, 1998-10
Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time (Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures) by Stephen Jay Gould, 1988-01-01
I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould, 2003-04-22
Lying Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould, 2000-03
The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould, 1982
The Book of Life: An Illustrated History of the Evolution of Life on Earth, Second Edition
Crossing Over Where Art and Science Meet by Stephen Jay Gould, Rosamond Wolff Purcell, et all 2000-11-14
The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice: and Other Classic Essays on Science by Peter Medawar, 1996-06-13
Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History (Norton Paperback) by Stephen Jay Gould, 1994-04-17

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The Unofficial Stephen Jay Gould Archive
to especially harsh scrutiny and also in a willingness to revise or abandon your theories when the tests fail (as they usually do). stephen jay gould.
http://www.stephenjaygould.org/

Extractions: tephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was among the best known and widely read scientists of the late 20th century. A paleontologist and educator at Harvard University, Gould made his largest contributions to science as the leading spokes-person for evolutionary theory. His monthly columns in Natural History magazine and his popular works on evolution have earned him numerous awards For more than 30 years Gould served on the faculty at Harvard, where he was Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Professor of Geology, Biology, and the History of Science, as well as curator for Invertebrate Paleontology at the institution's Museum of Comparative Zoology. On this website you will find articles by Gould and his colleagues focusing on the finer points of his work, the nature of life's evolution, and the general ontogeny of evolutionary theory.
The Unofficial Stephen Jay Gould Archive
fail (as they usually do)." stephen jay gould. tephen jay gould (19412002) was among the best and educator at Harvard University, gould made his largest contributions to science
http://www.freethought-web.org/

Extractions: tephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was among the best known and widely read scientists of the late 20th century. A paleontologist and educator at Harvard University, Gould made his largest contributions to science as the leading spokes-person for evolutionary theory. His monthly columns in Natural History magazine and his popular works on evolution have earned him numerous awards For more than 30 years Gould served on the faculty at Harvard, where he was Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Professor of Geology, Biology, and the History of Science, as well as curator for Invertebrate Paleontology at the institution's Museum of Comparative Zoology. On this website you will find articles by Gould and his colleagues focusing on the finer points of his work, the nature of life's evolution, and the general ontogeny of evolutionary theory.
Unofficial SJG Archive - Biography, By Richard Milner
The Unofficial stephen jay gould Archive. hen fiveyear-old stephen jay gould first marveled at the towering Tyrannosaurus skeleton
http://www.stephenjaygould.org/biography.html

Extractions: hen five-year-old Stephen Jay Gould first marveled at the towering Tyrannosaurus skeleton in the American Museum of Natural History, he decided to spend his life studying fossils. Although few children in Queens, New York, shared his early fascination for evolution, he never considered any other career but paleontology. Now professor at Harvard University and curator of its Museum of Comparative Zoology, Gould attended Antioch College, then returned to Manhattan, for graduate work in paleontology at Columbia University. For his doctoral thesis he investigated variation and evolution in an obscure Burmudian land snail, anchoring his later theorizing in intense scrutiny of a single group of organisms, as Darwin had done with Barnacles Gould also became interested in distinguishing incidental features from adaptive ones. He coauthored (with Richard Lewontin) an influential paper Ever Since Darwin (1977) and The Panda's Thumb Among opponents of punctuationalism, a few (Richard Dawkins, Verne Grant) complain Gould has set up a "straw man" of Darwinian gradualism and that jumpy or "quantum evolution" was discussed years ago by Ernst Mayr and George Gaylord Simpson . Examples of Darwin's self-contradictory fudging are easy to find, but Gould maintains that change "by slow, insensible degrees" remained central to Darwinian thought. And while acknowledging his predecessors' insights, Gould argues that often it is a shift of emphasis and focus rather than a radically new idea that leads to deeper scientific understanding.
Misbehavior
In The Boston Review, John Alcock, professor of biology at Arizona State University, provides a detailed look at gould's approach to adaptationism.
http://bostonreview.mit.edu/BR25.2/alcock.html

Extractions: How Stephen Jay Gould is wrong about evolution. John Alcock Stephen Jay Gould is arguably the most widely read biologist in America and our unofficial "evolutionist laureate," according to the editors of Natural History In reality, however, many evolutionists believe that Gould has exercised his considerable skills as an essayist to misinform the public about research in evolutionary biology. At regular intervals over 25 years, Gould has used Natural History as a forum for attacking human sociobiology, and, more broadly, the adaptationist or selectionist approach in evolutionary biology, because that methodology is the foundation for sociobiological investigation. Although Gould’s polemical attacks have earned him public support as an "articulate (and rightly feared) enemy of sociobiological and hereditarian excesses," His pronouncements on the adaptationist approach have been dissected and dismissed by a host of leading evolutionists. But because Gould is so hostile to human sociobiology, he has continued to try to undercut the selectionist philosophy that underlies that field by criticizing its application no matter what species is under study. For example, in "Only His Wings Remained," he launches a sweeping critique of adaptationist hypotheses in general:
CancerGuide: Stephen Jay Gould's "The Median Isn't The Message"
stephen jay gould was an influential evolutionary biologist who taught at Harvard University The Median Isn't the Message by stephen jay gould. My life has recently intersected, in a
http://cancerguide.org/median_not_msg.html

Extractions: Stephen Jay Gould was an influential evolutionary biologist who taught at Harvard University. He was the author of at least ten popular books on evolution, and science, including, among others, The Flamingo's Smile The Mismeasure of Man Wonderful Life , and Full House As far as I'm concerned, Gould's The Median Isn't the Message is the wisest, most humane thing ever written about cancer and statistics. It is the antidote both to those who say that, "the statistics don't matter," and to those who have the unfortunate habit of pronouncing death sentences on patients who face a difficult prognosis. Anyone who researches the medical literature will confront the statistics for their disease. Anyone who reads this will be armed with reason and with hope. The Median Isn't the Message is reproduced here by permission of the author. My life has recently intersected, in a most personal way, two of Mark Twain's famous quips. One I shall defer to the end of this essay. The other (sometimes attributed to Disraeli), identifies three species of mendacity, each worse than the one before - lies, damned lies, and statistics. Consider the standard example of stretching the truth with numbers - a case quite relevant to my story. Statistics recognizes different measures of an "average," or central tendency. The
CTRL - Quotations
Includes pages with quotes from America's founding fathers, Albert Einstein, Adolph Hitler, and stephen jay gould.
http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/quotations.html

Extractions: Did the Founding Fathers of the United States really mean to disentangle the Church from the State? This comprehensive quotation list attempts to demonstrate so. Read what the founders had to say about Separation, as well as what they said regarding their own religious views. You might be surprised. Stephen Jay Gould Quotations
Between Home And Heaven Contemporary American Landscape Photography
To reveal the truth within the landscape, photographers of the present day have had to find a way to mediate between the sometimes harsh realities of contemporary life and the edenic traditions of the genre between home and heaven. Featuring 90 works by 39 artists, along with illustrated essays by Merry Foresta, stephen jay gould, and Karal Ann Marling.
http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/collections/exhibits/helios/homeandheaven.html
CancerGuide: Stephen Jay Gould's "The Median Isn't The Message"
stephen jay gould was an influential evolutionary biologist who taught at Harvard University. The Median Isn t the Message by stephen jay gould.
http://www.cancerguide.org/median_not_msg.html

Extractions: Stephen Jay Gould was an influential evolutionary biologist who taught at Harvard University. He was the author of at least ten popular books on evolution, and science, including, among others, The Flamingo's Smile The Mismeasure of Man Wonderful Life , and Full House As far as I'm concerned, Gould's The Median Isn't the Message is the wisest, most humane thing ever written about cancer and statistics. It is the antidote both to those who say that, "the statistics don't matter," and to those who have the unfortunate habit of pronouncing death sentences on patients who face a difficult prognosis. Anyone who researches the medical literature will confront the statistics for their disease. Anyone who reads this will be armed with reason and with hope. The Median Isn't the Message is reproduced here by permission of the author. My life has recently intersected, in a most personal way, two of Mark Twain's famous quips. One I shall defer to the end of this essay. The other (sometimes attributed to Disraeli), identifies three species of mendacity, each worse than the one before - lies, damned lies, and statistics. Consider the standard example of stretching the truth with numbers - a case quite relevant to my story. Statistics recognizes different measures of an "average," or central tendency. The
The Earth Around Us: Maintaining A Livable Planet, An Anthology Edited By Jill S
Describes an anthology of essays edited by Jill S. Schneiderman of Vassar College. Essayists are mostly geologists, and include stephen jay gould, John McPhee, Orrin H. Pilkey and others.
http://vassun.vassar.edu/~schneide/Earth.html
CNN.com - Books - Sharing The Wonders Of Science: A Profile Of Stephen Jay Gould
http://www.cnn.com/2000/books/news/04/20/gould.profile/index.html
Salon.com Books | A Scientist For The Rest Of Us
for the rest of us Whether infuriating sociobiologists or enchanting readers, stephen jay gould liked messes and knew how to make hard thought look like fun.
http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2002/05/24/gould/

Extractions: By Andrew Brown Stephen Jay Gould, who died on Monday, belonged to no particular scientific sect and founded none. Almost all his battles were fought on his own. But the happy elegance of his style and the bewildering range of his interests allowed him to recruit the sympathies of every benevolent, well-read humanist to his various causes. No wonder he was hated so. He was the scientist for the rest of us. He gave as good as he got in his long feud with the "Darwinian fundamentalists," as he called his opponents. This term, an inspired piece of polemical mudslinging, showed that what his own invective lacked in quantity, it made up in quality, since one of the defining characteristics of the sociobiologists he was attacking was their rather Victorian atheism, and their conviction that the worst sort of human being in the world was a fundamentalist Christian.
Famed Biologist, Author Stephen Jay Gould Dies At 60
http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/05/20/obit.gould.ap/index.html
The New York Review Of Books: Darwinian Fundamentalism
An article by stephen jay gould from The New York Review of Books, June 12, 1997. The New York Review of Books. Darwinian Fundamentalism. By stephen jay gould. 1.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1151

Extractions: @import "/css/default.css"; Home Your account Current issue Archives ... Email to a friend Feature The Origin of Species In this light, especially given history's tendency to recycle great issues, I am amused by an irony that has recently ensnared evolutionary theory. A movement of strict constructionism, a self-styled form of Darwinian fundamentalism, has risen to some prominence in a variety of fields, from the English biological heartland of John Maynard Smith to the uncompromising ideology (albeit in graceful prose) of his compatriot Richard Dawkins, to the equally narrow and more ponderous writing of the American philosopher Daniel Dennett (who entitled his latest book Darwin's Dangerous Idea Moreover, a larger group of strict constructionists are now engaged in an almost mordantly self-conscious effort to "revolutionize" the study of human behavior along a Darwinian straight and narrow under the name of "evolutionary psychology." Some of these ideas have filtered into the general press, but the uniting theme of Darwinian fundamentalism has not been adequately stressed or identified. Professionals, on the other hand, are well aware of the connections. My colleague Niles Eldredge, for example, speaks of this coordinated movement as Ultra-Darwinism in his recent book, Reinventing Darwin Amid the variety of their subject matter, the ultra-Darwinists share a conviction that natural selection regulates everything of any importance in evolution, and that adaptation emerges as a universal result and ultimate test of selection's ubiquity.
Homo Deceptus - Never Trust Stephen Jay Gould. By Robert Wright
An article in Slate.
http://slate.msn.com/Earthling/96-11-27/Earthling.asp

Extractions: At the risk of sounding grandiose, I hereby declare myself to be involved in a bitter feud with no less a personage than Stephen Jay Gould. It all started in 1990, when I reviewed his book Wonderful Life for the New Republic . I argued, basically, that Gould is a fraud. He has convinced the public that he is not merely a great writer, but a great theorist of evolution. Yet, among top-flight evolutionary biologists, Gould is considered a pestnot just a lightweight, but an actively muddled man who has warped the public's understanding of Darwinism. Gould, alas, paid me no mind. No testy letter to the New Republic , nothing. I heard through the grapevine that he was riled. But, savvy alpha male that he is, he refrained from getting into a gutter brawl with a scrawny, marginal primate such as myself. Then, last month, my big moment finally arrived. Gould's long-repressed contempt burst forth from the reptilian core of his brain and leapt over the fire walls in his frontal lobes. In an essay in
Evolution: The Pleasures Of Pluralism
Evolution The Pleasures of Pluralism Debate stephen jay gould. New York Review of Books, June 26, 1997. ¶1 Charles Darwin began
http://cogweb.ucla.edu/Debate/Gould.html

Extractions: It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. He then begins the final sentence of the book with an equally famous statement: "There is grandeur in this view of life...." ¶2 For Darwin, as for any scientist, a kind of ultimate satisfaction (Darwin's "grandeur") must reside in the prospect that so much variety and complexity might be generated from natural regularitiesthe "laws acting around us"accessible to our intellect and empirical probing. But what is the proper relationship between underlying laws and explicit results? The "fundamentalists" among evolutionary theorists revel in the belief that one overarching lawDarwin's central principle of natural selectioncan render the full complexity of outcomes (by working in conjunction with auxiliary principles, like sexual reproduction, that enhance its rate and power).
CNN.com - Books - Sharing The Wonders Of Science: A Profile Of Stephen Jay Gould
http://www.cnn.com/2000/books/news/04/19/gould.profile/index.html
The Chronicle: 3/15/2002: Only Stephen Jay Gould Would Dare To Rewrite Darwin. B
Revising the Book of Life. Only stephen jay gould would dare to rewrite Darwin. ALSO SEE stephen jay gould a Punctuated Life gould Between the Lines.
http://www.chronicle.com/free/v48/i27/27a01401.htm

Extractions: Throughout much of his career at Harvard University, Stephen Jay Gould has protected the walls of his office, in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, from those who would cover up the aged paint and the large black words stenciled around the room. The patch of plaster overlooking one of his desks proclaims "Vermes," Latin for "worms." The titles "Mammals" and "Fish" adorn another section. Mr. Gould works beneath the remnants of a 19th-century zoological exhibit, dating to the time when this wing of the building was open to the public. In fact, much of the office seems locked in the Victorian era. Two antique typewriters sit on display, reminding visitors that Mr. Gould does not use a computer. Tall bookcases and fossil drawers line the walls and also the interior of the room, creating a warren of corridors that muffles sounds and casts shadows across the floor. As one former student says, "The office is steeped in history."
BioMedNet Gateways And News
stephen jay gould and Kipchoge Keino on why athletic achievement isn't in the genes.
http://news.bmn.com/news/story?day=010410&story=3
Inventing Allies In The Sky
Kenan Malik reviews 'Rocks of Ages science and religion in the fullness of life' by stephen jay gould.
http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/200102190041.htm
Reporter: Stephen Jay Gould
A short article written on the occasion of a visit and lecture by stephen jay gould at McGill University, from the McGill Reporter.
http://ww2.mcgill.ca/uro/Rep/r3105/gould.html

Extractions: SYLVAIN COMEAU The Harvard University paleontologist and evolutionary biologist spoke eloquently to a packed house in Leacock 132 last Wednesday on "Why we can't predict the future: A Millennial Perspective." Gould noted that there is a long tradition of scientists who liked to claim that they could tell the future, given enough information. While science has largely put aside such claims, many people mistakenly view that as a failing. "We understand that scientific fields do not lend themselves to predictability, and we see them as the worse for it. We see the inability to predict as our limit. When we fail to accurately predict, that is not our limitation, that is just nature's reality. The reason we can't make predictions is the enormous complexity of nature, and the randomness thrown in, when you try to explain a unique and particular series of events." Gould said that the desire to predict stems from the human need to find meaning in chance events. "We have to extract meaning out of the confusion of the world around us. We do it by telling stories, and by looking for patterns. And whenever we see a pattern, we have to tell a story about it" This leads us to think that we can predict, when so much of the 'patterning' we see is really just a clumping of results within a random system."

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