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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 hi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Allmon, Warren D., Kelley, Patricia H., Ross, Robert M. (Robert Merrill), 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.