Stephen J. Gould: The Scientific Legacy

From the book reviews: "The book under review represents the proceedings of a meeting held at the Instituto Veneto during early May 2012 to memorialize the tenth anniversary of Gould's death. ... This book will be useful and important for serious historians of science and for evolutionary biologists with special interest in the background of their own discipline." (Charles R. Crumly, Journal of Biological Physics, Vol. 41, 2015) "This slender volume of 13 essays touches, in varying degrees, on Gould's work in these fields. ... most chapters are well written and provocative. ... the book will interest historians of evolutionary thought and Gould's most ardent fans. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers/faculty, and professionals." (J. L. Hunt, Choice, Vol. 51 (7), March, 2014)

• Part I: Evolutionary theory.- Niles Eldredge: Stephen J. Gould in the 1960s and 1970s, and the origin of “Punctuated Equilibria”.- Elisabeth A. Lloyd: Stephen J. Gould and adaptation: San Marco 33 years later.- Telmo Pievani: Kinds of pluralism. Stephen J. Gould and the future of evolutionary theory.- Part II: Genome and development.- T. Ryan Gregory: Molecules and macroevolution: a Gouldian view of the genome.- Alessandro Minelli: Individuals, hierarchies and the levels of selection: a chapter in Stephen J. Gould’s evolutionary theory.- Gerd B. Müller: Beyond spandrels: Stephen J. Gould, EvoDevo, and the extended synthesis.- Marcello Buiatti: Biological complexity and Punctuated Equilibria.- Part III The anthropological legacy.- Ian Tattersall: Stephen J. Gould’s intellectual legacy to anthropology.- Guido Barbujani: Mismeasuring man thirty years later.- Klaus R. Scherer: Affect bursts as evolutionary precursors of speech and music.- Winfried Menninghaus: Darwin's theory of music, rhetoric and poetry.- Part IV: Stephen J. Gould and human sciences.- Andrea Cavazzini: Beyond (and without) the invisible hand. Conceptual shifts between economics and the theory of evolution.- Alberto Gualandi: Stephen J. Gould, between humanism and anti-humanism. Neoteny, exaptation and human science.