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Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould, 1997-09-16 The Science and Humanism of Stephen Jay Gould by Richard York, Brett Clark, 2010-08-01 The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould, 1987-01-17 I Have Landed: Splashes adn Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould, 2010-09-28 Punctuated Equilibrium by Stephen Jay Gould, 2007-05-31 Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould, 1998-10 Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time (Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures) by Stephen Jay Gould, 1988-01-01 I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould, 2003-04-22 Lying Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould, 2000-03 The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould, 1982 The Book of Life: An Illustrated History of the Evolution of Life on Earth, Second Edition Crossing Over Where Art and Science Meet by Stephen Jay Gould, Rosamond Wolff Purcell, et all 2000-11-14 The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice: and Other Classic Essays on Science by Peter Medawar, 1996-06-13 Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History (Norton Paperback) by Stephen Jay Gould, 1994-04-17

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21. Stephen Jay Gould
    A New York Times Book Review interview with stephen jay gould. At the Science Museum With stephen jay gould; An Evolving Celebrity (1993)  
    http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/11/09/home/gould.html

22. Curveball
    stephen jay gould. The Bell Curve, by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray (Free Press; $30), subtitled Intelligence and Class Structure in American  
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    Extractions: STEPHEN JAY GOULD The Bell Curve , by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray (Free Press; $30), subtitled Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life So, when a book garners as much attention as The Bell Curve The Bell Curve The Bell Curve The Bell Curve and also the author of a 1971 Atlantic Monthly article that presented the same argument without the documentation. The general claim is neither uninteresting nor illogical, but it does require the validity of four shaky premises, all asserted (but hardly discussed or defended) by Herrnstein and Murray. Intelligence, in their formulation, must be depictable as a single number, capable of ranking people in linear order, genetically based, and effectively immutable. If any of these premises are false, their entire argument collapses. For example, if all are true except immutability, then programs for early intervention in education might work to boost IQ permanently, just as a pair of eyeglasses may correct a genetic defect in vision. The central argument of The Bell Curve fails because most of the premises are false.

23. Stephen Jay Gould S Battle Against Racism
    AS PROLIFIC and provocative as stephen jay gould was on evolution, it was understandable that most obituaries on his recent death were obligated to focus on  
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    Extractions: Printer Friendly Version E-Mail This Article Published on Wednesday, May 29, 2002 in the Boston Globe Stephen Jay Gould's Battle Against Racism by Derrick Z. Jackson AS PROLIFIC and provocative as Stephen Jay Gould was on evolution, it was understandable that most obituaries on his recent death were obligated to focus on his notion of a ''punctuated equilibrium.'' Gould and colleague Niles Eldredge proposed that evolution was marked not by a continuous and gradual change of species but by sudden appearances of new species that themselves changed very little during their millions of years on earth. Gould also wrote mightily against punctuated inequality. Twenty years ago, Gould, a Harvard University scientist, published ''The Mismeasure of Man,'' which challenged the historical ranking of people by so-called levels of intelligence. Gould led the reader on a near-comical documentary of the ways the scientists of yesteryear tried to measure skulls, brains, heredity, and even the tattooing on criminals with the primary goal of declaring that western and northern Europeans had higher IQs than Eastern and Southern Europeans and people of color had much lower IQs. One famous example quoted by Gould was Louis Agassiz, the Harvard zoologist of the mid-1800s, who wrote that black people are part of a ''degraded and degenerate race.'' In 1996 Gould published a revised edition of ''The Mismeasure of Man,'' because men were still mismeasuring men and women. In 1994, right-wing political activist Charles Murray and the late Harvard psychology professor Richard Herrnstein hit the best-seller lists with ''The Bell Curve,'' which claimed that black people have lower and more fixed IQs than white people.

24. Stephen Jay Gould Review
    stephen jay gould is a professor of zoology at Harvard University. FIRE IN THE MIND Science, Faith And the Search for Order By George Johnson 379 pages.  
    http://www.santafe.edu/~johnson/fire.gould.html
    
    Extractions: I regard the Southwestern desert of the United States as the most fiercely beautiful real estate on earth. Many human cultures have passed through, vied for and settled in this magnificence, but most have rested lightly (with a few exceptions, most harshly the bright green lawns of Anglo mansions, for no vegetation could be less appropriate to the landscape or more wasteful of precious water in the desert). Seen from a distance, Hopi towns on the mesa tops look like horizontal layers of sedimentary rock, with ladders protruding from kivas as the only clear evidence of human construction for the uppermost stratum. Science has also entered this region of maximal diversity by building institutions as varied in purpose as Los Alamos, for the superior prosecution of war, and the Santa Fe Institute, for better understanding of complexity. George Johnson, until recently an editor at The New York Times, has lived in the various scientific subcultures of the region, and has studied the primary local alternatives of American Indian, Hispanic and Anglo origin. He uses this maximal diversity to ask the most important of all questions about the power and social impact of science: "Do the patterns found by the scientific subcultures of Santa Fe and Los Alamos hold some claim to universal truth, or would a visitor from a distant galaxy consider them as culturally determined as those divined by the Tewa and Penitentes?"

25. International Socialist Review
    The untimely death of stephen jay gould in May of this year deprived us of one of .. 1 stephen jay gould and Niles Eldredge, Punctuated equilibria An  
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    Extractions: By Phil Gasper Every major newspaper carried an obituary of Gould after his death, praising his scientific accomplishments. But most said nothing about another important aspect of Gould’s life–his radical politics. Gould was a red diaper baby. His maternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants who worked in Manhattan’s garment sweatshops in the early years of the last century, just blocks from the horrific Triangle Shirtwaist fire that killed 146 workers in 1911. "I grew up in a family of Jewish immigrant garment workers," Gould wrote, "and this holocaust (in the literal meaning of a thorough sacrifice by burning)…set their views and helped to define their futures."4 Gould’s parents were New York leftists, probably in or around the Communist Party in the 1930s, and he once boasted that he had learned his Marxism "literally at [my] daddy’s knee."5 Gould’s essays often revealed his interest in Marx and Marxism,6 even though he also made clear that his politics were "very different" from his father’s. Although he did not elaborate, Gould was most likely indicating by this comment his own rejection of Stalinism.7 Whatever precisely he meant, however, Gould remained politically active for left-wing causes during his whole life. While a visiting undergraduate at Leeds University in England in the early 1960s, for example, Gould organized weekly demonstrations outside a dance hall in nearby Bradford which refused to admit Blacks. The demonstrations continued until this racist policy was revoked, leaving a lasting impression on Gould’s fellow students.8

26. Stephen Jay Gould Books (Used, New, Out-of-Print) - Alibris
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    Extractions: your shopping cart order status wish list book fetch ... help Sign up for our newsletter and enter to win FREE books. your e-mail address see this month's winners NEW BOOKS OF NOTE COLLEGE TEXTBOOKS BARGAIN BOOKS ... RARE BOOKS Your search: Books Author: Gould, Stephen Jay (124 matching titles) Narrow your results by: Audiobook Signed First edition Fiction ... Eligible for FREE shipping Narrow results by title Narrow results by author Narrow results by subject Narrow results by keyword Narrow results by publisher or refine further Page of 5 sort by Top-Selling Price New Price Title Author Mismeasure of Man more books like this by Stephen Jay Gould When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits. And yet the idea of innate limits - of biology as destiny - dies hard, as witness the attention devoted to The Bell Curve, whose arguments are ... see all copies from new only from first editions Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusio

27. NONZERO
    (Please note that a central argument of the New Yorker essaythat biological evolution is directional, and stephen jay gould s argument to the contrary is  
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    Extractions: NONZERO THE LOGIC OF HUMAN DESTINY By ROBERT WRIGHT Home Thumbnail Summary Introduction Table of Contents and Excerpts Excerpts from Reviews About the Author Buy the Book PART I: A BRIEF HISTORY OF HUMANKIND PART II: A BRIEF HISTORY OF ORGANIC LIFE PART III: FROM HERE TO ETERNITY This essay originally appeared in The New Yorker , Dec. 13, 1999. It is adapted from chapters 19 and 20 of Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny New Yorker essaythat biological evolution is directional, and Stephen Jay Gould's argument to the contrary is deeply flawedis made in much greater detail in chapter 19 of the book.)

28. Stephen Jay Gould | American Museum Of Natural History
    The American Museum of Natural History mourns the death of stephen jay gould, one of the most influential paleontologists and evolutionary biologists of the  
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    Extractions: Photo: Roderick Mickens, AMNH The American Museum of Natural History mourns the death of Stephen Jay Gould, one of the most influential paleontologists and evolutionary biologists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Dr. Gould's long-standing association with the Museum began as a doctoral student in the joint American Museum-Columbia University program working under the advisement of the eminent paleontologist and Museum Curator Norman Newell. As a student he also began a lifelong collaboration with Niles Eldredge, now Curator in the American Museum of Natural History's Division of Paleontology, on the theory of punctuated equilibrium. The theory argues that evolutionary history is a pattern of rapid shifts followed by stasis rather than a slow and steady process of change. His association with the Museum continued with his regular contributions to Natural History magazine between 1974 and 2001, resulting in over 300 essays, many of which were collected in books such as Ever Since Darwin and Bully for Brontosaurus . He was also named the Frederick P. Rose Honorary Curator in the Museum's Division of Paleontology. Gould began teaching at Harvard University in 1967 where he spent his entire career. At Harvard he held the titles Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and Professor of Geology. He was also Vincent Astor Visiting Research Professor of Biology at New York University. His honors included the prestigious Schuchert Award for excellence in paleontological research by a scientist under 40, the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Fellowship, and "Scientist of the Year" by

29. A Scientist For The Rest Of Us - Salon.com
    May 24, 2002 stephen jay gould, who died on Monday, belonged to no particular scientific sect and founded none. Almost all his battles were fought on his  
    http://dir.salon.com/story/books/feature/2002/05/24/gould/index.html
    
    Extractions: Saturday, Jan 26, 2008 Log in Whether infuriating sociobiologists or enchanting readers, Stephen Jay Gould liked messes and knew how to make hard thought look like fun. By Andrew Brown Pages 1 RSS Font: S S+ S++ He gave as good as he got in his long feud with the "Darwinian fundamentalists," as he called his opponents. This term, an inspired piece of polemical mudslinging, showed that what his own invective lacked in quantity, it made up in quality, since one of the defining characteristics of the sociobiologists he was attacking was their rather Victorian atheism, and their conviction that the worst sort of human being in the world was a fundamentalist Christian. It's hard to think of any scientist who has managed to combine Gould's professional excellence for you do not get to be a senior professor at Harvard by being an industrious windbag with his gifts as a popularizer. As a paleontologist, Gould dealt with an obscure family of Bahamian land snails, and collaborated most famously with the trilobite expert Niles Eldredge. As a popularizer, he wrote enchantingly about subjects from bacteria to baseball. Perhaps the person he most resembled in this was Bertrand Russell, who also spent his professional life on subjects of arcane difficulty, increasingly isolated from the activities of his peers, and who earned his living with high-class journalism and popular histories. Russell, who won an unlikely Nobel prize for literature, was the better stylist (and the bigger fool, as reading his essays on current affairs makes clear today). But both men managed to make hard thought look easy and fun.

30. Stephen Jay Gould—what Does It Mean To Be A Radical? | Monthly Review | Find Ar
    stephen jay gould—what does it mean to be a radical? from Monthly Review in News provided free by Find Articles.  
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31. Russell Blackford - "Stephen Jay Gould On Science And Religion"
    While there is considerable controversy about stephen jay gould s contributions to evolutionary theory, he is an eminent scientist, an important  
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    Extractions: Stephen Jay Gould on Science and Religion by Russell Blackford (first published 2000 in Quadrant magazine) While there is considerable controversy about Stephen Jay Gould's contributions to evolutionary theory, he is an eminent scientist, an important sociopolitical thinker, and an exemplary prose stylist whose lucid books and essays are a source of pleasure as well as knowledge. Unfortunately, he seems to have reached such authorial prominence and saleability that publishers now allow him to indulge himself on subjects where he is out of his field, or his depth, or both. Gould remains incapable of writing a thoroughly bad book, but he's gone close to doing so with his 1999 effort, Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life The book's redeeming features include its detailed and plausible reinterpretation of the Scopes trial and the personalities involved. Though Gould has fought hard against the intellectual menace of creation science, he provides a sympathetic portrait of William Jennings Bryan the supposed villain in the Scopes case, demonstrating in passing that the high school biology text which John Scopes and Clarence Darrow sought to defend in the mid-1920s contained its share of obnoxious speculation along racist lines. But my interest is in Gould's central arguments.

32. On The Death Of Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould
    For more than 30 years, Stephne jay gould was a major figure in American scientific thought, as well as in the popular perception of science.  
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    Extractions: 1 July 2002 Use this version to print Send this link by email Email the author Stephen Jay Gould, the well-known Harvard paleontologist and noted defender of the theory of evolution, died last month from the effects of cancer, at the age of 60. Throughout much of his adult life, Gould has had an intimate association with this dreaded disease. Gould will be remembered primarily as a popularizer, as well as a prolific writer. He wrote more than 20 books, countless essays, and lectured on topics ranging from Darwinism and natural history to the sport of baseball, for which he held a lifelong passion. Gould also maintained a regular column in the journal Natural History , and had been the chairman of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Some of his most important books included The Mismeasure of Man Ontogeny and Phylogeny Shortly before his death, Gould completed his magnum opus

33. Would Stephen Jay Gould Have Signed The “Steves” List?
    The list was named in honor of the late stephen jay gould. gould was an ardent supporter of the NCSE during his life and an equally ardent foe of  
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    Extractions: Hosted by the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal CSICOP Home Skeptical Inquirer Inquiring Minds Skeptiseum ... Links By Jason Rosenhouse For several years now the National Center for Science Education has maintained Project Steve. This is a list of scientists who signed their name in support of a statement defending evolution and opposing creationism and ID. The catch is that only scientists named Steve are eligible to sign it. The list was intended as a parody of the standard creationist tactic of producing lists of scientists said to oppose evolution. You see, the NCSE’s list has, as of this writing, 649 signatories. That is far higher than any pathetic list the creationists could produce. And, obviously, scientists named Steve represent a tiny fraction of the scientific community generally. Here is the statement the signatories endorse: Evolution is a vital, well-supported, unifying principle of the biological sciences, and the scientific evidence is overwhelmingly in favor of the idea that all living things share a common ancestry. Although there are legitimate debates about the patterns and processes of evolution, there is no serious scientific doubt that evolution occurred or that natural selection is a major mechanism in its occurrence. It is scientifically inappropriate and pedagogically irresponsible for creationist pseudoscience, including but not limited to “intelligent design,” to be introduced into the science curricula of our nation’s public schools.

34. Stephen Jay Gould
    Discuss this name with other users on IMDb message board for stephen jay gould. Find where stephen jay gould is credited alongside another name  
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    Extractions: Now Playing Movie/TV News My Movies DVD New Releases ... search All Titles TV Episodes My Movies Names Companies Keywords Characters Quotes Bios Plots more tips SHOP STEPHEN JAY... DVD VHS CD IMDb Stephen Jay Gould Quicklinks categorized by type by year by ratings by votes by TV series titles for sale by genre by keyword power search credited with tv schedule biography other works publicity contact miscellaneous Top Links biography by votes awards news articles ... message board Filmographies categorized by type by year by ratings ... tv schedule Biographical biography other works publicity contact ... message board External Links official sites miscellaneous photographs sound clips ... video clips advertisement photos board add contact details Photos Add photo(s) and resume with IMDb Resume Services Date of Birth: 10 September New York, New York, USA more Date of Death: 20 May , New York, New York, USA (cancer) more Trivia: Taught at Harvard, 1967 to death in 2002, rising to final post as Alexander... more Alternate Names: Prof. Stephen Jay Gould Jump to filmography as: Actor Thanks Self

35. The "G-Files"
    Writings related to the ongoing debate involving stephen jay gould and others (In somewhat Lots of information about stephen jay gould from the Stanford  
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    Extractions: Last Updated: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 "The G Files": Linking "The Selfish Gene" And "The Thinking Reed" by Phillip Stevens Thurtle. Lots of information about Stephen Jay Gould from the Stanford Presidential Lectures and Symposium in the Humanities and Arts. So You Want to be an Anti-Darwinian: Varieties of Opposition to Darwinism - by John Wilkins [Talk.Origins archive] Dorothy It's Really Oz - "a pro-creationist decision in Kansas is more than a blow against Darwin" by S.J.Gould. Time , Aug 23, 1999 The Accidental Creationist: Why Stephen Jay Gould is bad for evolution . by Robert Wright This essay originally appeared in The New Yorker , Dec. 13, 1999. It is adapted from chapters 19 and 20 of

36. Quote Mine Project: The Discovery Institute Quote Mines Stephen Jay Gould
    In conclusion, this point was made emphatically by stephen jay gould and other (Brief Amici Curiae of stephen jay gould (and other scientists) in  
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    Extractions: Contents asey Luskin of the Discovery Institute has posted three articles at the Discovery Institute's blog, , entitled "Peer-Review, Intelligent Design, and John Derbyshire's New Bumper Sticker" Part I Part II and Part III Luskin quote mined Judge Jones' decision in Part I of his article above, which I previously addressed Here I want to address his quote (in Part III ) of an amicus curae brief that was signed by, among others, Stephen Jay Gould , in the 1993 Supreme Court case of Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals . Luskin has abused Gould's participation in this brief previously in his article, New England Journal of Medicine Traipses Into the Kitzmiller Decision (Part II)" and it unsurprisingly appears in the Discovery Institute's hastily thrown together attempt to blunt the effect of Judge Jones' decision, Traipsing into Evolution: Intelligent Design and the Kitzmiller v. Dover Decision

37. The Mismeasure Of Man (Main Page)
    In this edition, stephen jay gould has written a substantial new stephen jay gould (19412002) wrote more than twenty books and received the National  
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    Extractions: When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits. Yet the idea of biology as destiny dies hard, as witness the attention devoted to The Bell Curve , whose arguments are here so effectively anticipated and thoroughly undermined. In this edition, Stephen Jay Gould has written a substantial new introduction telling how and why he wrote the book and tracing the subsequent history of the controversy on innateness right through The Bell Curve . Further, he has added five essays on questions of The Bell Curve in particular and on race, racism, and biological determinism in general. These additions strengthen the book's claim to be, as Leo J. Kamin of Princeton University has said, "a major contribution toward deflating pseudo-biological 'explanations' of our present social woes." Saturday Review

38. Steve Sailer On Stephen Jay Gould On National Review Online
    arvard paleontologist stephen jay gould, the literary world s favorite scientist, has died of lung cancer at the age of 60.  
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    Extractions: His life and work. By Steve Sailer arvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, the literary world's favorite scientist, has died of lung cancer at the age of 60. Let us begin by speaking well of Gould the man. A deadly cancer struck him two decades ago; he somehow beat it and went on to do an enormous amount of hard work. He was an authority on West Indian land snails. He wrote dozens of books in a sonorous prose style that struck people of nonscientific inclinations as exactly what a Great Man of Science ought to sound like. Although always an adversary of Creationism, in later life he grew tired of the war of intellectual extermination being fought by extremists on both sides of the religion/science divide, and wisely urged forbearance. His vast energy and mellifluous prose style made him a celebrity. He portrayed himself on The Simpsons and sang "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" a capella — all the way through — as part of Ken Burns's baseball documentary.

39. PopMatters
    The evolutionary biologist stephen jay gould, who died of in the spring of 2002 at age 60, became a fixture in pop culture when he made a guest appearance  
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    Extractions: The Simpsons The evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould, who died of in the spring of 2002 at age 60, became a fixture in pop culture when he made a guest appearance on The Simpsons in 1997. My reaction to his debut as a cartoon character was complicated. I was surprised because I thought of him as a relatively obscure figure, and guest appearances were usually reserved for household names. Furthermore, I didn't want Gould to be a household name. I hated the thought of a favorite author, especially this favorite author, being exposed to the unwashed masses for fear they would trample, cheapen, and spoil him just as they would a cherished nature trail. This sort of trampling is not entirely an illusion. Publicity had cheapened Gould's work before. Ironically, despite all the cool objectivity and patience Gould needed for his scientific treatises his magnum opus

40. Geotimes - May 2002 - Stephen Jay Gould
    On Monday, paleontologist and popular author stephen jay gould died at the age of 60 at his home in New York. gould died of metastasized lung cancer,  
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    Extractions: On Monday, paleontologist and popular author Stephen Jay Gould died at the age of 60 at his home in New York. Gould died of metastasized lung cancer, according to a Harvard University statement. When he was 42, he had faced a different cancer, abdominal mesothelioma, which he fought off with experimental treatments. The Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard, Gould also taught geology and the history of science. He was a prolific writer and producer of scientific ideas, many that challenged theories about the mechanisms by which life has evolved and continues to evolve. "When the history of our discipline is written, he will be seen as a major juncture point. That's true whether you agree or disagree with him," says Warren Allmon, a paleontologist at Cornell University, director of the Paleontological Research Institution, and one of Gould's graduate students during the 1980s. Thirty years ago, Gould and colleague Niles Eldredge, now a curator in the Division of Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History, publicized the theory of punctuated equilibrium: that evolutionary changes happen in dramatic spurts separated by long periods of stasis. "Thirty years ago, we didn't believe in catastrophes, we didn't believe in sudden evolutionary change. We thought everything was slow and gradual. We don't think that way anymore," Allmon says. "What we teach students now we never would have taught them 30 years ago. … He was part of the nexus of all that."

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