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ISBN: 9780099273455 - Wonderful Life Wonderful Life
Stephen Jay Gould

ISBN10: 0099273454  ISBN13: 9780099273455
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 Aug 2000
An account of a revolution in our understanding of life's history, this book tells how three obscure British scientists completely changed our view of evolution by discovering a unique group of 530 million year-old creatures in the Burgess Shale... More
ISBN: 9780674061613 - Full House Full House
Stephen Jay Gould

ISBN10: 0674061616  ISBN13: 9780674061613
Publisher: Harvard University Press The Belknap Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 20 Sep 2011
Gould shows why a more accurate way of understanding our world is to look at a given subject within its own context, to see it as a part of a spectrum of variation and then to reconceptualize trends as expansion or contraction of this "full house"... More
ISBN: 9780674061606 - Dinosaur in a Haystack Dinosaur in a Haystack
Stephen Jay Gould

ISBN10: 0674061608  ISBN13: 9780674061606
Publisher: Harvard University Press The Belknap Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 20 Sep 2011
From fads to fungus, baseball to beeswax, Gould always circles back to the great themes of time, change, and history, carrying readers home to the centering theme of evolution. Evolutionary biologist and paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould has... More
ISBN: 9780099488675 - The Richness of Life The Richness of Life
Stephen Jay Gould

ISBN10: 0099488671  ISBN13: 9780099488675
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 May 2007
Stephen Jay Gould's writings on history - both of the natural world and of the study of that natural world - had made him a household name by the time of his death in 2002. This work contains a selection of Gould's writing, including some of the... More
ISBN: 9780674006133 - The Structure of Evolutionary Theory The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
Stephen Jay Gould

ISBN10: 0674006135  ISBN13: 9780674006133
Publisher: Harvard University Press The Belknap Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 02 Apr 2002
With attention to detail, Stephen Jay Gould first describes the content and discusses the history and origins of the three core commitments of classical Darwinism: that natural selection works on organisms, not genes or species; that it is almost... More
ISBN: 9780099749714 - I Have Landed I Have Landed
Stephen Jay Gould

ISBN10: 0099749718  ISBN13: 9780099749714
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 Jun 2003
This collection of essays apply biographical perspectives to the illumination of key scientific concepts and their history, ranging from the discovery of the scourge of syphilis by Fracastero in the 16th century to Isabelle Duncan's 19th... More
ISBN: 9780393314250 - The Mismeasure of Man The Mismeasure of Man
Stephen Jay Gould

ISBN10: 0393314251  ISBN13: 9780393314250
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 Jun 1996
The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve. When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic... More
ISBN: 9780099284529 - Rocks of Ages Rocks of Ages
Stephen Jay Gould

ISBN10: 0099284529  ISBN13: 9780099284529
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 Feb 2002
Sheds light on a dilemma that has plagued thinking people since the Renaissance. Instead of having to choose between science and religion, the author asks why do we not opt for the golden resolution that accords dignity and distinction to both? More
ISBN: 9780099285830 - The Lying Stones of Marrakech The Lying Stones of Marrakech
Stephen Jay Gould

ISBN10: 0099285835  ISBN13: 9780099285830
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 May 2001
In this new collection of essays, Gould has once again applied biographical perspectives to the illumination of key scientific concepts and their history, ranging from the origins of palaeontology to modern eugenics and genetic engineering. More
ISBN: 9780099440826 - The Hedgehog, the Fox and the Magister's Pox The Hedgehog, the Fox and the Magister's Pox
Stephen Jay Gould

ISBN10: 0099440822  ISBN13: 9780099440826
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 04 Mar 2004
Weaves the ideas of some of Wester society's greatest thinkers, from Bacon to Galileo to EO Wilson, with uncelebrated ideas of lesser-known yet pivotal intellectuals. This work of science their ideas to undo an assumption that science and... More