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Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny was Haeckels answerthe wrong oneto the most vexing question of nineteenth-century biology: what is the relationship between individual development (ontogeny) and the evolution of species and lineages (phylogeny)? I...

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Rarely has a scholar attained such popular acclaim merely by doing what he does best and enjoys most. But such is Stephen Jay Goulds command of paleontology and evolutionary theory, and his gift for brilliant explication, that he has brought dust ...

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Stephen Jay Gould examines the phenomenon of the millennium. He looks at the origins of the term in the Biblical prophecies of the Book of Revelation - if the six ages of man date from 4000BC, will 2000AD signify the end of time? Gould describes h...

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Among Stephen Jay Gould's many gifts was his ability to write eloquently about baseball, his great passion. Through the years, the renowned palaeontologist published numerous essays on the sport which have now for the first time been collected in ...

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Stephen Jay Gould's writing remains the modern standard by which popular science writing is judged. Throughout his work Gould has developed a distinctive and personal form of essay to treat great scientific issues in the context of biography. With...

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Stephen Jay Gould's writing remains the modern standard by which popular science writing is judged. Ever since the late 1970s up until till his death in 2002, his monthly essay in Natural History and his full-length books bridged the yawning gap b...

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Stephen Jay Gould's writing remains the modern standard by which popular science writing is judged. Ever since the last 1970s, his monthly essay in Natural History and his full-length books have bridged the yawning gap between science and the wide...

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"e;This sparkling book romps over the range of science and anti-science."e; --Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel Revised and Expanded Edition.In this age of supposed scientific enlightenment, many people still believe in mind ...

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Writing with characteristic bracing intelligence and clarity, Gould sheds new light on a dilemma that has plagued thinking people since the Renaissance. Instead of having to choose between science and religion, Gould asks, why not opt for the gold...

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In his characteristically iconoclastic and original way, Stephen Jay Gould argues that progress and increasing complexity are not inevitable features of the evolution of life on Earth. Further, if we wish to see grandeur in life, we must discard o...

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Completed shortly before his death, this is the last work of science from the most celebrated popular science writer in the world.In characteristic form, Gould weaves the ideas of some of Western society's greatest thinkers, from Bacon to Galileo ...

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Messen und Klassifizieren sind konstruktive Elemente von Wissenschaft. Sie gehören zu den Garanten von Objektivität. Doch Wissenschaft ist, wie jede andere menschliche Tätigkeit, Handeln in der Gesellschaft. Die Zahlen und Ergebnisse, die die Wiss...

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Waren die Dinosaurier wirklich dümmer als Eidechsen? Warum werden eigentlich immer ungefähr gleich viele Männer wie Frauen geboren? Wie kam der berühmte Dr. Down zu seiner "Mongolismus"-Theorie und ihren rassistischen...

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