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  1. First Person: Stephen Jay Gould On Evolution by Stephen Jay Gould, 1994-11
  2. The Hedgehog, the Fox and the Magister's Pox: Mending and Minding the Misconceived Gap Between Science and the Humanities by Stephen Jay Gould, 2004-03-04
  3. Hens Teeth & Horses Toes by Stephen Jay Gould, 1983-01-01
  4. Full House the Spread of Excellence From by Stephen Jay Gould, 1996
  5. Illusion Fortschritt. Die vielfältigen Wege der Evolution. by Stephen Jay Gould, 1999-11-01
  6. The Panda's Thumb by Stephen Jay Gould, 1987-10-01
  7. Das Ende vom Anfang der Naturgeschichte by Stephen Jay Gould, 2005-02-28
  8. Comme les huit doigts de la main by Stephen Jay Gould, 2000-04-15
  9. Der Jahrtausend- Zahlenzauber. Durch die Scheinwelt numerischer Ordnungen. by Stephen Jay Gould, 2000-11-01
  10. Der falsch vermessene Mensch. by Stephen Jay Gould, 1999-01-01
  11. Darwin's Legacy: Nobel Conference XVIII by Nobel Conference 1982 (Gustavus Adolphus College), Charles L. Hamrum, et all 1983-11
  12. La foire aux dinosaures by Stephen Jay Gould, 1997-09-10
  13. Eight Little Piggies Reflections In Natu by Stephen Jay Gould, 1993-01-28
  14. An Urchin In The Storm by Stephen Jay Gould, 1990-05-01

61. The Evolution Of Life On Earth By Stephen J. Gould
by stephen jay gould. stephen jay gould teaches biology, geology and the history of science at Harvard University, where he has been on the faculty since 1967.
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by Stephen Jay Gould The history of life is not necessarily progressive; it is certainly not predictable. The earth's creatures have evolved through a series of contingent and fortuitous events. STEPHEN JAY GOULD teaches biology, geology and the history of science at Harvard University, where he has been on the faculty since 1967. He received an A.B. from Antioch College and a PhD. in paleontology from Columbia University. Well known for his popular scientific writings, in particular his monthly column in Natural History magazine, he is the author of 13 books. Some creators announce their inventions with grand éclat. God proclaimed, "Fiat lux," and then flooded his new universe with brightness. Others bring forth great discoveries in a modest guise, as did Charles Darwin in defining his new mechanism of evolutionary causality in 1859: "I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection." Natural selection is an immensely powerful yet beautifully simple theory that has held up remarkably well, under intense and unrelenting scrutiny and testing, for 135 years. In essence, natural selection locates the mechanism of evolutionary change in a "struggle" among organisms for reproductive success, leading to improved fit of populations to changing environments. ( Struggle is often a metaphorical description and need not be viewed as overt combat, guns blazing. Tactics for reproductive success include a variety of non-martial activities such as earlier and more frequent mating or better cooperation with partners in raising offspring.) Natural selection is therefore a principle of local adaptation, not of general advance or progress.

62. Gould, Stephen Jay. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
2001. gould, stephen jay. 1941–2002, American paleontologist and science writer, b. Queens, New York; grad. Antioch College (BS, 1963), Columbia Univ.
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63. Gould, Stephen Jay. The American Heritage® Dictionary Of The English Language:
gould, stephen jay. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language Fourth Edition. 2000. 2000. gould, stephen jay. DATES Born 1941.
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64. Gould, Stephen Jay --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Year in Review 2002 obituary gould, stephen jay Encyclopædia Britannica Article. MLA style gould, stephen jay. Encyclopædia Britannica. 2004.
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65. Stephen Jay Gould --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
gould, stephen jay Britannica Student Encyclopedia. , gould, stephen jay American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and science writer.
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66. Upstream: Reflections On Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure Of Man
BAKER, 1974, Race. Oxford University Press. Reflections on stephen jay gould s The Mismeasure of Man (1981) JOHN B. CARROLL, University
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Book Reviews IQ "Madonna-one of eight children of a car plant worker, and who was six when her mother died-started out with much less than the Wannabes-the pre-teen girl gangs who made up her original hardcore following.... Yet only twenty-eight summers have seen her progress from a Detroit cul-de-sac to a Malibu beach house, and from £5-an-hour cheesecake to an £80 million fortune. ....But why Madonna? She is beautiful, but not that beautiful; a good dancer, but not that good; a good actress only when playing herself and an alleged singer. Strength is the answer - just as the very lack of it marked out the embarrassingly vulnerable Marilyn Monroe.... In a landscape of wall-to wall wimps, she is a force of nature, like a hurricane, with so much faith in herself that, sometimes, she appears to be on the verge of the psychotic."
Julie BURCHILL, 1992, Sex and Sensibility London Grafton. "As for bias, the evidence in The Bell Curve R.J.Herrnstein C.M.Murray , 1994] deserves careful examination. The IQ difference between blacks and whites, the authors say is greater on test items that appear culturally neutral than on those that appear culturally loaded. Moreover, although black IQ scores get higher with higher socioeconomic status, the difference between blacks and whites of the same higher socioeconomic status does not shrink. Also, is it not odd that IQ tests are never accused of being sexist? Men and women have nearly identical mean IQs. But if IQ tests are deliberately constructed so as to put certain groups down, why were women not put down too? Perhaps there is something more objective lurking in these tests that cannot so easily be manipulated to satisfy the whims of the white males who invented them."

67. Stephen Jay Gould | American Museum Of Natural History
In Memoriam, stephen jay gould (19412002). stephen jay gould Photo Roderick Mickens, AMNH. The American Museum of Natural History
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68. Stephen Jay Gould
stephen jay gould. by John Nichols. But stephen jay gould, the nation s most prominent evolutionary biologist, refused to write off Kansasor reason.
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69. Stephen Jay Gould
Books by stephen jay gould. NATIONAL BEST SELLER Bully for Brontosaurus Reflections in Natural History A collection as diverse and
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Books by Stephen Jay Gould
NATIONAL BEST SELLER
Bully for Brontosaurus
Reflections in Natural History
A collection as diverse and lively as Professor Gould's writing: giant Kiwi eggs, science education, Joe Dimaggio's hitting streak, single-chromosome ants, and much more. As always, Professor Gould illuminates the wonders of natural history through fascinatingand unexpectedexamples.
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Eight Little Piggies
Reflections in Natural History
In this, the author's sixth volume of essays, Stephen Jay Gould jumps sprightly and elegantly from fish tail and frog calls to the span of human generations and the very question of our extinction.
"Each of these 31 essays-about Darwin, about the origins and age of our planet, and the ideas that mold our understanding of how we got heredraws us into a cozy little world where we are left in intimate touch with Gould's heart and mind." Robert Kanigel, Washington Post
478 pages
Ever Since Darwin
Reflections in Natural History
285 pages
The Flamingo's Smile
Reflections in Natural History
"Scientific essays that glow with truth and beauty . . . No one knows, or states, better than Gould how ethics and science are interdependent." Stephen Bercher, Chicago Sun-Times

70. Stephen Jay Gould
stephen jay gould . LA AUTÉNTICA MEDIDA DE UN GRAN HOMBRE. En la mañana del día 20 de mayo de 2002, falleció stephen
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"En Memoria de Stephen Jay Gould"
LA AUTÉNTICA MEDIDA DE UN GRAN HOMBRE
Aunque el aspecto más conocido de Gould fue su capacidad para hacer llegar la ciencia al público en general, quizás la aportación más notable fue junto con Niles Eldredge el desarrollar la teoría evolutiva del "Equilibrio puntuado". En la cual explicaba que las especies permanecían durante largos espacios de tiempo apenas alteradas, y que en breves períodos de crisis se producían gran número de novedades evolutivas. Este razonamiento entró en contradicción con los evolucionistas tradicionales que apoyaban una evolución "gradualista" y a tasa constante. Stephen Jay Gould nació en septiembre de 1941 en Nueva York, en 1963 se graduó en Geología en el Antioch College, doctorándose en la Universidad de Columbia en 1967. En ese mismo año obtuvo el puesto de Ayudante del Conservador del Museo en paleontología invertebrada en Harvard, siendo promocionado a profesor de geología en 1971, y a Conservador en 1973. En 1982 fue nombrado Profesor de zoología "Alexander Agassiz". Entre las muchas distinciones que le concedieron a lo largo de su vida tiene mas de 40 títulos Honoris Causa de las más distinguidas Instituciones del mundo, fue nombrado "Científico del año" en 1981 por la revista Discover, medalla de Excelencia de la Universidad de Columbia en 1983, medalla de plata de Sociedad Zoológica de Londres en 1984, medalla de oro por su servicio a la Zoología de la Sociedad Linnean de Londres en 1992, reconocimiento de las Sociedades de Profesores de Geología y Biología de Estados Unidos, y el premio como "Científico distinguido" de la Universidad de California, del Centro para el estudio de la evolución y los orígenes de la vida, en 1997.

71. Evolution: Library: Stephen Jay Gould: Understanding Evolution
stephen jay gould Understanding Evolution. According to Dr. stephen jay gould Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary
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Stephen Jay Gould: Understanding Evolution
According to Dr. Stephen Jay Gould : "Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life, which if replanted from seed, would almost surely not grow this twig again." Interviewed for Evolution , Dr. Gould comments on natural selection , the Darwinian Revolution, and evolution as an amoral process. Credits: View Text Resource Type: Interview Format: Text
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72. Gould, Stephen Jay
gould, stephen jay. US palaeontologist and writer. In 1972 he proposed the theory of punctuated equilibrium, suggesting that the
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73. Gould, Stephen Jay
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74. Quotes For Freethinkers
of its own necessary construction. (p. 216). stephen jay gould the latter quoes from Full House. doing what little one can to
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Thinking Quotes
Alphabetical index "That which is unchallenged and exercised as habit rapidly becomes ritual. When this occurs, dissent becomes an object of surprise, if not resentment."
B. Carmon Hardy
"For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise (from the closing speech at the Constitutional Convention of 1787) "'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic." letter to Benjamin Vaughan mentioning Dr. Priestley) Benjamin Franklin "Religion is like chemotherapy, it may solve one problem, but it can cause a million more."
John Bledsoe "Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?" "Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true." "The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad." "God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight." Friedrich Nietzsche (the latter from Thus Spake Zarathustra "One man's religion is another man's belly laugh."

75. The Scientist - Love Him Or Hate Him, Stephen Jay Gould Made A Difference
10, 2002. OPINION. Love Him or Hate Him, stephen jay gould Made a Difference. I never met stephen jay gould, though I did attend a lecture he gave two years ago.
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The Scientist 16[12]:12, Jun. 10, 2002
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Gould was first and foremost a scientist. His immediate research area, the evolution of land snails, might seem quaint to some, but his impact transcended those bounds. Most scientists, and others as well, knew him as a bold thinker and synthesizer unafraid to ruffle feathers, particularly with his Punctuated Equilibrium hypothesis. Together with Niles Eldredge of the American Museum of Natural History, Gould tried to explain why species suddenly change in the fossil record. The jumps were real rather than illusory, they argued, and not the product of poor preservation of intermediate forms. Searching for such forms was pointless because they don't exist. Instead, much of evolution is characterized by static periods in which organisms don't change, interspersed with rapid speciation events. Published in 1972, the hypothesis pitted Gould against gradualists adhering to traditional Darwinian explanations. It may seem more like a molehill than a mountain now, but at the time debate over the idea was pretty heated. "It was shocking in '72," says evolutionary ecologist Massimo Pigliucci of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. "It sparked a lot of papers," and that's why "it was one of the most important papers of the 20th century," he concludes. In a way, Gould prefaced such advances. You also see Gould's insight on evolution and development in his books

76. Russell Blackford - "Stephen Jay Gould On Science And Religion"
stephen jay gould on Science and Religion. by. Russell Blackford. (first published 2000 in Quadrant magazine). While there is considerable
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Stephen Jay Gould on Science and Religion by Russell Blackford (first published 2000 in Quadrant magazine) While there is considerable controversy about Stephen Jay Gould's contributions to evolutionary theory, he is an eminent scientist, an important sociopolitical thinker, and an exemplary prose stylist whose lucid books and essays are a source of pleasure as well as knowledge. Unfortunately, he seems to have reached such authorial prominence and saleability that publishers now allow him to indulge himself on subjects where he is out of his field, or his depth, or both. Gould remains incapable of writing a thoroughly bad book, but he's gone close to doing so with his 1999 effort, Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life The book's redeeming features include its detailed and plausible reinterpretation of the Scopes trial and the personalities involved. Though Gould has fought hard against the intellectual menace of creation science, he provides a sympathetic portrait of William Jennings Bryan the supposed villain in the Scopes case, demonstrating in passing that the high school biology text which John Scopes and Clarence Darrow sought to defend in the mid-1920s contained its share of obnoxious speculation along racist lines. But my interest is in Gould's central arguments.

77. An Urchin In A Haystack
stephen jay gould. An Urchin In A Haystack. How does one briefly summarize the life of an intellectual like stephen jay gould in a short introduction?
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From Skeptic vol. 4, no. 1, 1996, pp. 86-90. For more information, visit www.skeptic.com
Stephen Jay Gould
An Urchin In A Haystack
An Interview by Michael Shermer
How does one briefly summarize the life of an intellectual like Stephen Jay Gould in a short introduction? He has been praised to the hilt by skeptics and humanists for his tireless efforts in battling the creationists, admired by writers and reviewers for his brilliant literary style, and read by virtually everyone with any interest in science, from layman to professional. After an A.B. from Antioch College and a Ph.D. from Columbia, Gould began teaching at Harvard at the young age of 26, and immediately set to work to reform his profession. In 1972, he and Niles Eldredge published their theory of punctuated equilibrium, a new interpretation of the fossil record, and Gould won the prestigious Schuchert Award for excellence in paleontological research by a scientist under age 40. Like his baseball hero, Joe DiMaggio, whose 56-game hitting streak is considered one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of sports, Gould began a streak of his own of monthly essays in Natural History magazine. At the time of this writing it is up to 256, and he intends to continue it to the end of the millennium. For his literary achievements Gould has won countless awards, including a National Magazine Award for his essays, a National Book Award for

78. Stephen Jay Gould
Translate this page stephen jay gould. stephen jay gould è cresciuto a New York. Si è laureato all’Antioch College ed ha ricevuto il dottorato in
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Stephen Jay Gould Stephen Jay Gould è cresciuto a New York. Si è laureato all’Antioch College ed ha ricevuto il dottorato in filosofia alla Columbia University nel 1967. Da allora è professore di geologia e zoologia all’Università di Harvard. Si considera prima di tutto un paleontologo e un biologo evoluzionista, anche se insegna altrettanto bene geologia e storia della scienza. Le sue pubblicazioni includono “ Ontogenesi e Filogenesi ”, uno studio scolastico sulla teoria della ricapitolazione. E' forse il principale esponente del pluralismo darwiniano È molto impegnato nella divulgazione scientifica e perciò la raccolta delle sue pubblicazioni è molto ampia:
  • Ontogey and Philogeny The Mismeasure of Man Il sorriso del fenicottero La freccia del tempo, il ciclo del tempo. Mito e metafora nella scoperta del tempo geologico (Feltrinelli, 1989) La vita meravigliosa (Feltrinelli, l990) Bravo Brontosauro Il pollice del panda (Anabasi, 1994) Gli alberi non crescono fino al cielo. Varietà ed eccellenza nella storia della vita Questa idea della vita. La sfida di Charles Darwin

79. Analysis Of Homer Simpson And Stephen Jay Gould
Access Research Network. An Analysis of Homer Simpson and stephen jay gould. by William A. Dembski. Note The Simpson s, television s
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An Analysis of Homer Simpson and Stephen Jay Gould
by William A. Dembski Note: The Simpson's, television's popular prime-time cartoon known for its satirical commentary on various social issues, recently took a shot at the creation-evolution debate by featuring Stephen Jay Gould prominently in one of its episodes. Here is Bill Dembski's review and observations of that episode. For those of you who regularly watch the Simpsons, you'll know that to have one's voice and character appear on a Simpsons episode is a mark of accomplishment and fame. Over the years George Harrison, Bette Midler, Magic Johnson, Danny DeVito, and a host of other entertainers and notables have appeared on the program. I was therefore particularly impressed when S. J. Gould appeared on tonight's episode. Gould was playing himself, a scientist at the local natural history museum. This episode was really a very clever cultural commentary. Lisa Simpson wants to stop a huge mall development from proceeding at "Sabertooth Ravine" because the ravine is a fossil site. As a compromise, the mall developers decide to let Lisa dig for fossils while they continue to build the mall. While digging, Lisa finds an almost human fossil. Almost, but not quite: in place of arms the fossil has wings. "It's an angel" declare the naive and religiously motivated townfolk. Lisa, who plays the scientific naturalist, will have none of it. She therefore enlists Gould to prove that the fossil is nothing of the sort. Gould claims that the DNA tests he performed proved inconclusive.

80. Jeffrey St. Clair: Farewell, Stephen Jay Gould
May 24, 2002. stephen jay gould, 19412002 Farewell to a Great Fighter. He never stopped fighting one step along the way. Books by stephen jay gould.
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