Stephen Jay Gould
Reflections on His View of Life
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 6 November 2008
- ISBN 9780195373202
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages416 pages
- Size 155x234x33 mm
- Weight 706 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 6 halftones, 22 line illustrations 0
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Long description:
Considered by many during his lifetime as the most well-known scientist in the world, Stephen Jay Gould left an enormous and influential body of work. A Harvard professor of paleontology, evolutionary biology, and the history of science, Gould provided major insights into our understanding of the history of life. He helped to reinvigorate paleontology, launch macroevolution on a new course, and provide a context in which the biological developmental stages of an organism's embryonic growth could be integrated into an understanding of evolution. This book is a set of reflections on the many areas of Gould's intellectual life by the people who knew and understood him best: former students and prominent close collaborators. Mostly a critical assessment of his legacy, the chapters are not technical contributions but rather offer a combination of intellectual bibliography, personal memoir, and reflection on Gould's diverse scientific achievements. The work includes the most complete bibliography of his writings to date and offers a multi-dimensional view of Gould's life-work not to be found in any other volume.
A dozen or more of Gould's ex-students assess his science, standing and personality, six years after his untimely death. He emerges as a genius of sorts, but - appropriately for his geologist beginnings - with feet not unmarked by clay.
Table of Contents:
Editors Preface
List of Contributors
The structure of Gould: History, happenstance, humanism, and the unity of his view of life. - Warren D. Allmon
Diversity in the fossil record and Stephen Jay Goulds evolving view of the history of life. - Richard K. Bambach
The legacy of punctuated equilbrium - Dana H. Geary
A tree grows in Queens: Stephen Jay Gould and ecology - Warren D. Allmon, Paul J. Morris, and Linda C. Ivany
Stephen Jay Goulds winnowing fork: Science, religion, and creationism. - Patricia H. Kelley
Top-tier: Stephen Jay Gould and mass extinctions, or I remember Steve talking about mass extinction one day, boy that was a hoot - David C. Kendrick
Stephen Jay Gould What does it mean to be a radical? - Richard C. Lewontin and Richard Levins
Evolutionary theory and the uses of biology. - Philip Kitcher
Stephen Jay Goulds evolving, hierarchical thoughts on stasis. - Bruce S. Lieberman
Stephen Jay Gould: The scientist as educator. - Robert M. Ross
Stephen Jay Gould: Remembering a geologist - Jill S. Schneiderman
Goulds odyssey: Form may follow function, or former function, and all species are equal (especially bacteria), but history is trumps. - Roger D. K. Thomas
The tree of life: Stephen Jay Goulds contributions to systematics - Margaret M. Yaccobucci
Genetics and Development: Good as Gould - Robert L. Dorit
Bibliography of Stephen J. Gould
Compiled by Warren D. Allmon
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