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The most entertaining and enlightening writings by the beloved paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and celebrant of the wonder of life. "Nature is so wondrously complex and varied that almost anything possible does happen....I rejoice in [its] multifariousness and leave the chimera of certainty to politicians and preachers." —from Ever Since Darwin
Upon his death in 2002, Stephen Jay Gould stood at the pinnacle among observers of the natural world, recognized by Congress as a "living legend." His prodigious legacy—sixteen best-selling and prize-winning books, dozens of scientific papers, an unbroken series of three hundred essays in Natural History —combined to make Gould the most widely read science writer of our time. This indispensable collection of forty-eight pieces from his brilliant oeuvre includes selections from classics such as Ever Since Darwin and The Mismeasure of Man , plus articles and speeches never before published in book form.
This volume, the last that will bear his name, spotlights his elegance, depth, and sheer pleasure in our world—a true celebration of an extraordinary mind. 20 illustrations
目录
List of Figures p. ix
Foreword Oliver Sacks p. xi
Introduction p. 1
Part I Autobiography p. 11
I Have Landed p. 15
The Median Isn't the Message p. 26
The Streak of Streaks p. 32
Seventh Inning Stretch: Baseball, Father, and Me p. 41
Trouble in Our Own House: A Brief Legal Survey from Scopes to Scalia p. 49
Of Two Minds and One Nature p. 59
Part II Biographies p. 65
Thomas Burnet's Battleground of Time p. 71
The Lying Stones of Marrakech p. 85
The Stinkstones of Oeningen p. 103
The Razumovsky Duet p. 114
The Power of Narrative p. 127
Not Necessarily a Wing p. 143
Worm for a Century, and All Seasons p. 155
The Darwinian Gentleman at Marx's Funeral: Resolving Evolution's Oddest Coupling p. 166
The Piltdown Conspiracy p. 182
Part III Evolutionary Theory p. 205
The Evolution of Life on Earth p. 209
Challenges to Neo-Darwinism and Their Meaning for a Revised View of Human Consciousness p. 222
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory: Revising the Three Central Features of Darwinian Logic p. 238
The Episodic Nature of Evolutionary Change p. 261
Betting on Chance-and No Fair Peeking p. 267
The Power of the Modal Bacter, or Why the Tail Can't Wag the Dog p. 278
The Great Dying p. 286
The Validation of Continental Drift p. 290
Phyletic Size Decrease in Hershey Bars p. 297
Part IV Size, Form, and Shape p. 303
Opus 100 p. 307
Size and Shape p. 319
How the Zebra Gets Its Stripes p. 324
Size and Scaling in Human Evolution p. 333
Part V Stages and Sequences p. 359
The Ladder and the Cone: Iconographies of Progress p. 362
Up Against a Wall p. 376
Part VI Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology p. 391
Pervasive Influence p. 395
The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Program p. 423
More Things in Heaven and Earth p. 444
Posture Maketh the Man p. 467
Freud's Evolutionary Fantasy p. 473
Part VII Racism, Scientific and Otherwise p. 487
Measuring Heads: Paul Broca and the Heyday of Craniology p. 490
The Most Unkindest Cut of All p. 534
A Tale of Two Work Sites p. 546
Carrie Buck's Daughter p. 564
Just in the Middle p. 574
Part VIII Religion p. 587
Non-overlapping Magisteria p. 590
The Diet of Worms and the Defenestration of Prague p. 604
Darwin and the Munchkins of Kansas p. 616
Hooking Leviathan by Its Past p. 615
Sources and Acknowledgments p. 636
Index p. 641
Foreword Oliver Sacks p. xi
Introduction p. 1
Part I Autobiography p. 11
I Have Landed p. 15
The Median Isn't the Message p. 26
The Streak of Streaks p. 32
Seventh Inning Stretch: Baseball, Father, and Me p. 41
Trouble in Our Own House: A Brief Legal Survey from Scopes to Scalia p. 49
Of Two Minds and One Nature p. 59
Part II Biographies p. 65
Thomas Burnet's Battleground of Time p. 71
The Lying Stones of Marrakech p. 85
The Stinkstones of Oeningen p. 103
The Razumovsky Duet p. 114
The Power of Narrative p. 127
Not Necessarily a Wing p. 143
Worm for a Century, and All Seasons p. 155
The Darwinian Gentleman at Marx's Funeral: Resolving Evolution's Oddest Coupling p. 166
The Piltdown Conspiracy p. 182
Part III Evolutionary Theory p. 205
The Evolution of Life on Earth p. 209
Challenges to Neo-Darwinism and Their Meaning for a Revised View of Human Consciousness p. 222
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory: Revising the Three Central Features of Darwinian Logic p. 238
The Episodic Nature of Evolutionary Change p. 261
Betting on Chance-and No Fair Peeking p. 267
The Power of the Modal Bacter, or Why the Tail Can't Wag the Dog p. 278
The Great Dying p. 286
The Validation of Continental Drift p. 290
Phyletic Size Decrease in Hershey Bars p. 297
Part IV Size, Form, and Shape p. 303
Opus 100 p. 307
Size and Shape p. 319
How the Zebra Gets Its Stripes p. 324
Size and Scaling in Human Evolution p. 333
Part V Stages and Sequences p. 359
The Ladder and the Cone: Iconographies of Progress p. 362
Up Against a Wall p. 376
Part VI Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology p. 391
Pervasive Influence p. 395
The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Program p. 423
More Things in Heaven and Earth p. 444
Posture Maketh the Man p. 467
Freud's Evolutionary Fantasy p. 473
Part VII Racism, Scientific and Otherwise p. 487
Measuring Heads: Paul Broca and the Heyday of Craniology p. 490
The Most Unkindest Cut of All p. 534
A Tale of Two Work Sites p. 546
Carrie Buck's Daughter p. 564
Just in the Middle p. 574
Part VIII Religion p. 587
Non-overlapping Magisteria p. 590
The Diet of Worms and the Defenestration of Prague p. 604
Darwin and the Munchkins of Kansas p. 616
Hooking Leviathan by Its Past p. 615
Sources and Acknowledgments p. 636
Index p. 641
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