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Stephen Jay Gould

United States paleontologist and popularizer of science (1941-2002)

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Prix de la BnF 2019Prix Renaudot 2010

Some Poems

[L]ife shows no trend to complexity in the usual sense—only an asymmetrical expansion of diversity around a starting point constrained to be simple.”
“Speciation does not necessarily promote evolutionary change; rather, speciation 'gathers in' and guards evolutionary change by locking and stabilization for sufficient geological time within a Darwinian individual of the appropriate scale. If a change in a local population does not gain such protection, it becomes—to borrow Dawkins's metaphor at a macroevolutionary scale—a transient duststorm in the desert of time, a passing cloud without borders, integrity, or even the capacity to act as a unit of selection, in the panorama of life's phylogeny.”
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
... objectivity resides in recognizing your preferences and then subjecting them to especially harsh scrutiny...
“I emphatically do not assert the general ‘truth’ of this philosophy of punctuational change. Any attempt to support the exclusive validity of such a grandiose notion would border on the nonsensical.”
Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
... many folks take them seriously because they just ‘know’ that evolution can never be seen in the immediate here and now. In fact, a precisely opposite situation prevails: biologists have documented a veritable glut of cases for rapid and eminently measurable evolution on timescales of years and decades.”
Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human arrogance off one pedestal after another of our previous conviction about our own self-importance.
“The modern theory of evolution does not require gradual change. It in fact, the operation of Darwinian processes should yield exactly what we see in the fossil record. It is gradualism that we must reject, not Darwinism.
Stephen Jay Gould interview (1996)
Steven Jay Gould: Darwin's Revolution in Thought
Stephen Jay Gould interview on Evolution
Sloppily Spinning Stephen Jay Gould in his Sepulcher
Should You Read Stephen Jay Gould?
Stephen Jay Gould on Intelligence Tests (IQ), the Nature - Nurture Controversy 1995
Science, Fate and Religion
The Simpsons - Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould interview (2000)
1995 | In the Company of Animals conference, Keynote Address by Stephen Jay Gould | The New School
Stephen Jay Gould - This View of Life (1984)
Nonsense needs to be fought / Stephen J Gould
Stephen Jay Gould interview (1996)
Stephen Jay Gould - There is No Evolution in the Fossil Record
A Glorious Accident (6 of 7) Stephen Jay Gould: The Unanswerable
Stephen Jay Gould on Full House - The John Adams Institute
Stephen Jay Gould DESTROYS Old Racist Sam Harris.
The Punctuated Equilibrium vs Darwinian Evolution War | Stephen Jay Gould vs Richard Dawkins
Stephen Jay Gould, Academy Class of 1982, Full Interview
Stephen Jay Gould: DARWINISM NOW. The Royal Institution, 1994
Stephen Jay Gould 1 Wonderful Life 1993
Dr. Stephen Jay Gould—Evolution Revolution: Festschrift 2000 for Stephen Jay Gould, Part III
Stephen Jay Gould Biography
Debunking Ben Shapiro's IQ Nonsense With Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould - Short Documentary
Stephen Jay Gould on Evolution part 1. Introduction (1/2)
First Person: Stephen Jay Gould – On Evolution (1994) [144p]
Stephen Jay Gould
1993 Tour of Stephen Jay Gould's Harvard Office
Stephen Jay Gould interview (I)
A Glorious Accident (7 of 7) Coming together: We wonder, ever wonder why we found us here
Stephen Jay Gould's concept of Non-Overlapping Magisteria (NOMA)
13 - Stephen Jay Gould - Van de schoonheid en de troost (Of Beauty and Consolation) 2000
Darwin's Revolution in Thought
Is the Panda's Thumb Proof of Evolution?
HISTORIAS DESTACADAS - STEPHEN JAY GOULD
Of Beauty and Consolation Episode 13 Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould on Dinosaurs and Evolution
Stephen Jay Gould raccontato da Telmo Pievani
Stephen Jay Gould interview (1997)
Stephen Jay Gould, "Tanner Lectures" I and II, 1989 [Audio]
Stephen Jay Gould interview (IV)
Dawkins and Gould Visit the Creation Evidence Museum
Stephen Jay Gould 1991 Interview
There is no such thing as a fish
07 - Stephen Jay Gould, Oliver Sacks etc. - Een schitterend ongeluk (A Glorious Accident) 1993
Redes 17/04/ 1998 Entrevista a Stephen Jay Gould
WOS: Oliver Sacks on his close friendship with Stephen Jay Gould
"Wonderful Life" By Stephen Jay Gould
Dominique de Vienne nous conseil Stephen Jay Gould

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