Stephen Jay Gould: Reflections on His View of Life
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. Time Higher Education Supplement
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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 INDEX
