Overview :"Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" was Haeckel's answer--the wrong one--to the most vexing question of nineteenth-century biology: what is t... Read More
Overview :And yet the idea of innate limits--of biology as destiny--dies hard, as witness the attention devoted to The Bell Curve, whose arguments are... Read More
Overview :In this collection of essays, Gould exposes muddled thinking about matters biological, and makes the point that evolution is not a ladder bu... Read More
Overview :In 1972 Stephen Jay Gould took the scientific world by storm with his paper on punctuated equilibrium, written with Niles Eldredge. Challeng... Read More
Overview :Evolutionary theory is the theme that binds together these essays on such seemingly disparate topics as the feeding habits of flamingos, flo... Read More
Overview :Originally published in 1979. An Input/output database is an information system carrying current data on the intermediate consumption of any... Read More
Overview :From fads to fungus, baseball to beeswax, Gould always circles back to the great themes of time, change, and history, carrying readers home ... Read More
Overview :Among scientists who write, no one illuminates as well as Stephen Jay Gould doesthe wonderful workings of the natural world. Now in a new vo... Read More
Overview :Writing with bracing intelligence and clarity, internationally renowned evolutionist and bestselling author Stephen Jay Gould sheds new ligh... Read More
Overview :With sales of well over one million copies in North America alone, the commercial success of Gould's books now matches their critical acclai... Read More
Overview :High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It hold the remains of an an... Read More
Overview :Stephen Jay Gould was not only a leading paleontologist and evolutionary theorist, he was also a humanist with an enduring interest in the h... Read More
Overview :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... Read More
Overview :Over a century after Darwin published the Origin of Species, Darwinian theory is in a "vibrantly healthy state," writes Stephen Jay Gould, i... Read More
Overview :As always in his popular writing, Gould conveys the ideas that science professionals exchange among themselves, minus only the technical jar... Read More