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Ever Since Darwin is a 1977 book by the paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. Gould's first book of collected essays, it originated from his monthly column "This View of Life," published in Natural History magazine. [2]
- Stephen Jay Gould
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1 gen 1977 · Ever Since Darwin, Stephen Jay Gould's first book, has sold more than a quarter of a million copies. Like all succeeding collections by this unique writer, it brings the art of the scientific essay to unparalleled heights. 285 pages, Paperback. First published January 1, 1977.
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28 lug 2010 · Ever since Darwin : reflections in natural history. by. Gould, Stephen Jay. Publication date. 1977. Topics. Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882, Evolution (Biology), Natural selection, Évolution, Sélection naturelle, Evolutie, Natuurlijke historie, Evolution, Selection, Genetic. Publisher. New York : Norton.
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- Epilogue Bibliography Index
- 3 | Darwin’s Dilemma: The Odyssey of Evolution
- 4 | Darwin’s Untimely Burial
- 7 | The Child as Man’s Real Father
- 8 | Human Babies as Embryos
- 9 | The Misnamed, Mistreated, and Misunderstood Irish Elk
- 10 | Organic Wisdom, or Why Should a Fly Eat Its Mother from Inside
- 12 | The Problem of Perfection, or How Can a Clam Mount a Fish on Its Rear End?
- 14 | An Unsung Single-Celled Hero
- 17 | The Reverend Thomas’ Dirty Little Planet
- 20 | The Validation of Continental Drift
- 21 | Size and Shape
- 23 | History of the Vertebrate Brain
- 24 | Planetary Sizes and Surfaces
- 25 | On Heroes and Fools in Science
- 27 | Racism and Recapitulation
- D.G. BRINTON, 1890
- L. BOLK, 1926
- 28 | The Criminal as Nature’s Mistake, or the Ape in Some of Us
- 30 | The Nonscience of Human Nature
- 31 | Racist Arguments and IQ
- 33 | So Cleverly Kind an Animal
- | Epilogue
OTHER TITLES BY STEPHEN JAY GOULD PUBLISHED OTHER TITLES BY STEPHEN JAY GOULD Copyright
THE EXEGESIS OF evolution as a concept has occupied the lifetimes of a thousand scientists. In this essay, I present something almost laughably narrow in comparison—an exegesis of the word itself. I shall trace how organic change came to be called evolution. The tale is complex and fascinating as a purely antiquarian exercise in etymological detect...
IN ONE OF THE numerous movie versions of A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge encounters a dignified gentleman sitting on a landing, as he mounts the steps to visit his dying partner, Jacob Marley, “Are you the doctor?” Scrooge inquires. “No,” replies the man, “I’m the undertaker; ours is a very competitive business.” The cutthroat world of intellec...
PONCE DE LEON’S search for the fountain of youth continues in retirement villas of the sunshine state he discovered. Chinese alchemists once searched for the drug of deathlessness by allying the incorruptibility of flesh with the permanence of gold. How many of us would still make Faust’s pact with the devil in exchange for perpetual life? But our ...
MEL ALLEN, that irrepressible emcee of Yankee baseball during my youth,3 finally aroused my displeasure by overenthusiastic endorsement of his sponsors. I never balked when he referred to home runs as “Ballantine blasts,” but my patience was strained one afternoon when DiMaggio missed the left field foul pole by an inch and Allen exclaimed: “Foul b...
Nature herself seems by the vast magnitude and stately horns, she has given this creature, to have singled it out as it were, and showed it such regard, with a design to distinguish it remarkably from the common herd of all other smaller quadrupeds.
SINCE MAN CREATED God in his own image, the doctrine of special creation has never failed to explain those adaptations that we understand intuitively. How can we doubt that animals are exquisitely designed for their appointed roles when we watch a lioness hunt, a horse run, or a hippo wallow? The theory of natural selection would never have replace...
IN 1802, Archdeacon Paley set out to glorify God by illustrating the exquisite adaptation of organisms to their appointed roles. The mechanical perfection of the vertebrate eye inspired a rapturous discourse on divine benevolence; the uncanny similarity of certain insects to pieces of dung also excited his admiration, for God must protect all his c...
ERNST HAECKEL, the great popularizer of evolutionary theory in Germany, loved to coin words. The vast majority of his creations died with him a half-century ago, but among the survivors are “ontogeny,” “phylogeny,” and “ecology.” The last is now facing an opposite fate—loss of meaning by extension and vastly inflated currency. Common usage now thre...
“WE DO NOT seem to inhabit the same world that our first forefathers did.... To make one man easie, ten must work and do drudgery.... The earth doth not yield us food, but with much labor and industry.... The air is often impure or infectious.” Modern eco-activism this is not. The sentiment is right, but the style is a giveaway. It is, instead, the...
AS THE NEW Darwinian orthodoxy swept through Europe, its most brilliant opponent, the aging embryologist Karl Ernst von Baer, remarked with bitter irony that every triumphant theory passes through three stages: first it is dismissed as untrue; then it is rejected as contrary to religion; finally, it is accepted as dogma and each scientist claims th...
Who could believe an ant in theory? A giraffe in blueprint? Ten thousand doctors of what’s possible Could reason half the jungle out of being. JOHN CIARDI’S lines reflect a belief that the exuberant diversity of life will forever frustrate our arrogant claims to omniscience. Yet, however much we celebrate diversity and revel in the peculiarities of...
NATURE DISCLOSES the secrets of her past with the greatest reluctance. We paleontologists weave our tales from fossil fragments poorly preserved in incomplete sequences of sedimentary rocks. Most fossil mammals are known only from teeth—the hardiest substance in our bodies—and a few scattered bones. A famous paleontologist once remarked that mammal...
CHARLES LYELL expressed in no uncertain terms the guiding concept of his geologic revolution. In 1829, he wrote to his colleague and scientific opponent Roderick Murchison: My work ... will endeavor to establish the principle of reasoning in the science ... that no causes whatever have from the earliest time to which we can look back, to the presen...
AS A ROMANTIC teen-ager, I believed that my future life as a scientist would be justified if I could discover a single new fact and add a brick to the bright temple of human knowledge. The conviction was noble enough; the metaphor was simply silly. Yet that metaphor still governs the attitude of many scientists toward their subject. In the conventi...
The adult who retains the more numerous fetal, [or] infantile ... traits is unquestionably inferior to him whose development has progressed beyond them. Measured by these criteria, the European or white race stands at the head of the list, the African or negro at its foot.
On the basis of my theory, I am obviously a believer in the inequality of races.... In his fetal development the negro passes through a stage that has already become the final stage for the white man. If retardation continues in the negro, what is still a transitional stage may for this race also become a final one. It is possible for all other rac...
BLACKS ARE inferior, Brinton tells us, because they retain juvenile traits. Blacks are inferior, claims Bolk, because they develop beyond the juvenile traits that whites retain. I doubt that anyone could construct two more contradictory arguments to support the same opinion. The arguments arise from different readings of a fairly technical subject ...
W.S. GILBERT DIRECTED his potent satire at all forms of pretension as he saw them. For the most part we continue to applaud him: pompous peers and affected poets are still legitimate targets. But Gilbert was a comfortable Victorian at heart, and much that he labeled as pretentious now strikes us as enlightened—higher education for women, in particu...
WHEN A GROUP of girls suffered simultaneous seizures in the presence of an accused witch, the justices of seventeenth century Salem could offer no explanation other then true demonic possession. When the followers of Charlie Manson attributed occult powers to their leader, no judge took them seriously. In nearly three hundred years separating the t...
LOUIS AGASSIZ, the greatest biologist of mid-nineteenth-century America, argued that God had created blacks and whites as separate species. The defenders of slavery took much comfort from this assertion, for biblical prescriptions of charity and equality did not have to extend across a species boundary. What could an abolitionist say? Science had s...
I N Civilization and Its Discontents, Sigmund Freud examined the agonizing dilemma of human social life. We are by nature selfish and aggressive, yet any successful civilization demands that we suppress our biological inclinations and act altruistically for common good and harmony. Freud argued further that as civilizations become increasingly comp...
WHERE IS DARWINISM going? What are the prospects for its second century? I claim no clairvoyance, only some knowledge of the past. But I do believe that an assessment of future direction must be tied to an understanding of what has been—particularly to the three central ingredients of Darwin’s own world view: his focus on individuals as primary evo...
Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History. Stephen Jay Gould. W. W. Norton & Company, Jul 17, 1992 - Science - 286 pages. More than any other modern scientists, Stephen Jay Gould has...
His genius as an essayist lies in his unmatched ability to use his knowledge of the world, including popular culture, to illuminate the realm of science., Ever Since Darwin, Reflections in Natural History, Stephen Jay Gould, 9780393308181
