| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 400 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The structure of Gould : happenstance, humanism, history, and the unity of his view of life / Warren D. Allmon -- Diversity in the fossil record and Stephen Jay Gould's evolving view of the history of life / Richard K. Bambach -- The legacy of punctuated equilibrium / 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 Gould's winnowing fork : science, religion, and creationism / Patricia H. Kelley -- Top-tier : Stephen Jay Gould and mass extinctions / David C. Kendrick -- Stephen Jay Gould -- what does it mean to be a radical? / Richard C. Lewontin and Richard Levins -- Evolutionary theory and the social uses of biology / Philip Kitcher -- Stephen Jay Gould's 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 -- Gould's odyssey : form may follow function, or former function, and all species are equal (especially bacteria), but history is trumps / R.D.K. Thomas -- The tree of life : Stephen Jay Gould's contributions to systematics / Margaret M. Yacobucci -- Genetics and development : good as Gould / Robert L. Dorit -- Bibliography : Stephen Jay Gould / compiled by Warren D. Allmon. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
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 are. |
| Local Note |
EBSCOhost Biography Reference Center |
| Subject |
Gould, Stephen Jay.
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Gould, Stephen Jay. (OCoLC)fst00047331
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Biology.
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Natural history.
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Biology. (OCoLC)fst00832383
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Natural history. (OCoLC)fst01034268
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Allmon, Warren D.
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Kelley, Patricia H.
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Ross, Robert M. (Robert Merrill), 1963-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Stephen Jay Gould. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2009 (DLC) 2008010562 |
| ISBN |
0199706492 (electronic book) |
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9780199706495 (electronic book) |
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9780195373202 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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0195373200 (Cloth) |
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0195373200 |
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