Stephen Jay Gould : Reflections on His View of Life.
Title:
Stephen Jay Gould : Reflections on His View of Life.
Author:
Kelley, Patricia.
ISBN:
9780199706495
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (678 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Editors' Preface -- Contributors -- 1. The Structure of Gould: Happenstance, Humanism, 3 History, and the Unity of His View of Life -- 2. Diversity in the Fossil Record and Stephen Jay Gould's 69 Evolving View of the History of Life -- 3. The Legacy of Punctuated Equilibrium -- 4. A Tree Grows in Queens: Stephen Jay Gould and Ecology -- 5. Stephen Jay Gould's Winnowing Fork: Science, Religion, and Creationism -- 6. Top-Tier: Stephen Jay Gould and Mass Extinctions -- 7. Stephen Jay Gould- What Does It Mean to Be a Radical? -- 8. Evolutionary Theory and the Social Uses of Biology -- 9. Stephen Jay Gould's Evolving, Hierarchical Thoughts on Stasis -- 10. Stephen Jay Gould: The Scientist as Educator -- 11. Stephen Jay Gould: Remembering a Geologist -- 12. Gould's Odyssey: Form May Follow Function, or Former Function, and All Species Are Equal (Especially Bacteria), but History Is Trumps -- 13. The Tree of Life: Stephen Jay Gould's Contributions to Systematics -- 14. Genetics and Development: Good as Gould -- 15. Bibliography: Stephen Jay Gould -- Notes -- Index.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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