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A detailed biography and discussion of his writings.

Staggering our certainties about humanity's place at the top of the heap By SCOTT ROSENBERG In the popular mind, Darwin's great discovery was that apes were our ancestors. To Stephen Jay Gould, that's not the half of it. The Darwinian ideas that people really have a hard time embracing, he maintains, are the implications of natural selection -- a theory that explains the development of Homo ...

THE EVOLUTION OF LIFE ON THE EARTH A SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN article. The history of life is not necessarily progressive; it is certainly not predictable. The earth's creatures have evolved through a series of contingent and fortuitous events. STEPHEN JAY GOULD teaches biology, geology and the history of science at Harvard University, where he has been on the faculty since 1967. He received an A.B.

Reviews of Bully for Brontosaurus, Dinosaur in a Haystack, Ontogeny and Phylogeny, Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle and Wonderful Life ...

An article by Stephen Jay Gould from The New York Review of Books, June 12, 1997 ...

Go to Chapter One Section Dinosaur in a Haystack Reflections in Natural History By Stephen Jay Gould Chapter One: Happy Thoughts on a Sunny Day in New York City Gallileo described the universe in his most famous line: This grand book is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures. Why should the laws of nature be subject to ...