61. Biography Of Stephen Jay Gould Fiveyear-old stephen jay gould visited the American Museum of Natural History in New York with his father, a court stenographer, in 1946. http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/gouldsj.html

Stephen Jay Gould by Doug Linder (2004) Five-year-old Stephen Jay Gould visited the American Museum of Natural History in New York with his father, a court stenographer, in 1946. Gould gazed in amazement at the sight of his first dinosaur, a twenty-foot-high tyrannosaurus. Punctuated equilibrium holds that evolution occurred primarily in relatively rapid periods of speciation rather than taking place in slow, gradual transformations through the process of natural selection. According to Gould, most species remain largely stable over long periods of time before some cataclysmic event sets rapid change in motion. For example, Gould argued, 65 million years ago, following the impact of the meteor near the Yucatan Peninsula and the resultant death of dinosaurs, the burrowing mammals that survived rapidly evolved and filled vacated ecological niches. is Gould made three general arguments for evolution. First, he pointed to the undeniable evidence of evolution within species, such as the breeding that produced dogs as diverse as the toy poodle and the Saint Bernard or the evolving of anti-biotic resistant strains of bacteria. Finally, Gould found compelling evidence for evolution in the fossil record of transitional species.

62. Stephen Jay Gould: An Appreciation stephen jay gould, More Things in Heaven and Earth, in Rose and Rose, p 98. A taste of the loathing for gould in some quarters can be gained from an http://www.wpunj.edu/newpol/issue36/Bradley36.htm

Stephen Jay Gould: An Appreciation Clive Bradley [from New Politics , vol. 9, no. 4 (new series), whole no. 36, Winter 2004] CLIVE BRADLEY is a regular contributor to Workers' Liberty (UK). He has written extensively on the politics of militant Islam. STEPHEN JAY GOULD, THE PALAEONTOLOGIST AND SCIENCE WRITER who died last year, wrote brilliantly on a bewildering series of subjects, but he is perhaps best known for his contribution to four: general evolutionary theory; the sociobiology debate; the relationship between science and religion; and the study (or critique of it) of intelligence testing. This article will attempt mainly to introduce these debates to readers unfamiliar with them, and to summarize what Gould had to say. It is written by someone with no academic background in the natural sciences, but who came to admire Gould enormously as, at least implicitly, though often more than that, a socialist, even (broadly) Marxist scientist. Perhaps, indeed, this is an underlying and more general issue that Gould addressed and illuminated: whether the notion of a "socialist scientist" is not properly speaking false, or oxymoronic. Science, surely, is science; and attempts to box it into socialist or Marxist frameworks sound more like the appalling practices of the Soviet Union than much else. Gould, and in this is he was by no means alone, argued however for understanding science, like everything else, in its social and historical context. The child of Jewish members of the Communist Party, Gould was politically engaged, beginning in the 1960s with involvement in Science for the People. His colleague, geneticist Richard Lewontin, is probably more overtly political, and writes with a harder ideological edge. But Gould was more well known (and a better writer); and so, for instance, one popular account of recent debates in science lumps one whole "camp" together as "Gouldians" (against the "Dawkinsians").

63. Stephen Jay Gould News - The New York Times News about stephen jay gould. Commentary and archival information about stephen jay gould from The New York Times. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/stephen_jay_gould/i

@import url(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/css/topic/screen/200704/topic.css); Get Home Delivery Log In Register Now Home Page ... Times Topics Saturday, January 26, 2008 Times Topics World U.S. N.Y. / Region ... G > Gould, Stephen Jay E-MAIL Save Stephen Jay Gould News about Stephen Jay Gould, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times. ARTICLES Newest First Oldest First Page: Rock of Ages, Ages of Rock By HANNA ROSIN They may never persuade other scientists the earth is young, but creationist geologists are having an impact on other Christians. November 25, 2007 By PAM BELLUCK May 21, 2005 Can Drug-Free Baseball Stars Smash Records? By STEPHEN METCALF Not according to the Gould paradox. April 25, 2004 (18) Is Evolution Truly Random? By CAROL KAESUK YOON Evolutionary biologists have pondered one of their most intractable questions: how much of the living world is here by chance? November 11, 2003 BOOKS IN BRIEF: NONFICTION By CHRISTINE KENNEALLY Christine Kenneally reviews book The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox: Mending the Gap Between Science and the Humanities by Stephen Jay Gould June 15, 2003

64. Revolutions In Evolution: Stephen Jay Gould In Perspective The work he was referring to was stephen jay gould s The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, a massive volume of some 1400 pages published in 2002.2 http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj100/mcgarr.htm

Revolutions in evolution: Stephen Jay Gould in perspective Paul McGarr 'P erhaps the most important advance in evolutionary theory since Darwin wrote The Origin of Species in 1859'. That assessment was given by the eminent, and left wing, biologist Steven Rose speaking at the Marxism 2003 event in London. The work he was referring to was Stephen Jay Gould's The Structure of Evolutionary Theory , a massive volume of some 1,400 pages published in 2002. Gould knew that he was dying as he worked on the book, and died of cancer last year at the age of 60. His legacy is immense. He is best known as a brilliant populariser of science, mainly through his collections of essays. These stemmed from a column in the US magazine Natural History . He started the series in 1974 and for more than 25 years kept up an unbroken monthly sequence, totalling over 300 essays in all. In them he ranged over issues in evolution, natural history and often way beyond. Sometimes he countered opponents like creationists, sometimes he explained important scientific ideas and debates. Always the essays were beautifully written and accessible while never oversimplifying the science. Gould drew heavily on history, art, architecture and much else, including baseball which he had a passion for, all of which he wove into his arguments to brilliant effect. Not many people can pull off explaining one of the most important theoretical arguments in evolution by treating readers to a long discussion about the statistics of home runs in US baseball seasons!

65. Joel's Humanistic Blog: Stephen Jay Gould Recently, I found out that some choice stephen jay gould essays from The New York Review of Books are free online at the magazine s website (hat tip to http://joelschlosberg.blogspot.com/2006/12/stephen-jay-gould.html

skip to main skip to sidebar Joel's humanistic blog Monday, December 18, 2006 Stephen Jay Gould Recently, I found out that some choice Stephen Jay Gould essays from The New York Review of Books are free online at the magazine's website (hat tip to 2xSlick on the agony booth forum ). One is the first Gould essay I ever read, "Dinomania" (1993, also in the then-new collection Dinosaur in a Haystack ), where he deals with the Jurassic Park phenomenon, and in particular takes the movie version to task dumbing down some of the themes of the book. Another is "The Streak of Streaks" (1988, also in the collection Bully for Brontosaurus ) about Joe DiMaggio's hitting record, with Gould's memorable account of his personal encounter with his sports hero when his father caught a ball from DiMaggio. So, to complement the many bloggers who are posting anecdotes and memories of Sagan for the Sagan blog-a-thon , I'll describe my own memories of meeting with Sagan's friend and fellow science writer Gould, who also died far too young (Sagan would be 72 today, Gould 65). The time was fall 2000, when I was entering my first semester at NYU and Gould's essay column was still running every month in

66. NPR: Stephen Jay Gould And Marcel Duchamp Tonight in New York, there will be a memorial service for scientist and author stephen jay gould. gould died last week. He was wellknown for his studies of http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1144186

67. Science/AAAS | Science Magazine: Sign In Full Text Futuyma, EVOLUTION stephen jay gould a la recherche du temps perdu, Science 2002 296 661663. You are on the site via Free Public Access. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/296/5568/661

Jump to: Page Content Section Navigation Site Navigation Site Search ... Account Information , or Site Tools Note to users. If you're seeing this message, it means that your browser cannot find this page's style/presentation instructions or possibly that you are using a browser that does not support current Web standards. Find out more about why this message is appearing, and what you can do to make your experience of our site the best it can be. Site Tools Site Search Site Area Science Magazine Daily News Science Signaling SAGE KE Science Careers All HighWire Journals Terms Advanced Account Information Guest Alerts Access Rights My Account Sign In Site Navigation Readers Members Authors Librarians Advertisers Home Science Magazine Subscribe/Join AAAS or Buy Access to This Article to View Full Text. The content you requested requires a AAAS member subscription to this site or Science Pay per Article purchase. If you already have a user name and password, please sign in below. EVOLUTION: Stephen Jay Gould a la recherche du temps perdu Futuyma Science 26 April 2002: 661 DOI: 10.1126/science.1070871

68. Creek Running North: When I Find Myself In Times Of Trouble, Stephen Jay Gould C The one I picked this morning was paleontologist stephen jay gould s essay The Median Isn t the Message. Faced in 1982 with a diagnosis of mesothelioma, http://www.faultline.org/place/pinolecreek/archives/002494.html

@import "http://www.faultline.org/styles-site.css"; You are viewing a page on Creek Running North's old site. For more recent content, visit the new site at www.faultline.org. Creek Running North Main August 12, 2005 When I find myself in times of trouble, Stephen Jay Gould comes to me Another great walk this morning with my pal Zeke, who is taking all this far better than I am. As people often do when confronted with bad news, I turned my mind to scripture as we walked, to see if there was some solace or, barring that, wisdom to be found. And it can work if you pick the right scripture. The one I picked this morning was paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould's essay The Median Isn't the Message. Faced in 1982 with a diagnosis of mesothelioma, a cancer associated with exposure to asbestos, Gould went to the medical library to read up on his condition. He read that his cancer was incurable, with a median mortality of eight months after diagnosis. After a bit of thought, Gould was elated at the good news in those statistics. Degenerative myelopathy, the incurable neuromuscular disease that has been suggested as a likely cause of the growing weakness in Zeke's hindquarters, is a devastating and incurable illness that is, apparently, uniformly terminal. And incurable. Did I mention incurable?

69. The Hedgehog, The Fox, And The Magister S Pox Mending The Gap This book is stephen jay gould s swan song, written in 2001, a year before his death. Through an examination of early scientific texts, mainly from gould s http://www.psychservices.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/55/4/459

70. Gene Expression: Why Stephen J Gould Was Wrong Why stephen J gould was wrong. From that Yglesias discussion I linked a while back, here s a debunking of the two central claims of the Mismeasure of Man. http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/001524.html

Gene Expression Front Page December 25, 2003 Why Stephen J Gould was wrong From that Yglesias discussion I linked a while back, here's a debunking of the two central claims of the Mismeasure of Man. You may also be interested in this response by Arthur Jensen. However, I feel that the evidence from brain scans is more knock-your-socks-off persuasive. Here's the comment from Yglesias that occassioned the retort: Yawn. Hasn't the fallacy of IQ been settled for years? Has anyone here read The Mismeasure of Man? Razib-While Gould has his shortcomings(he's said some pretty embarassing things about E.O. Wilson and Richard Dawkins)I think he does an effective job of demolishing the concept of g or of intelligence as a single number that is innate and immutable. He also takes on Jensen whom you have referred to bolster your argument. I'd recommend the book to everyone, but be warned there is a chapter on factor analysis that is torture. The Mismeasure of Man didn't disprove the validity of IQ or factor analysis. It is a nontechnical work of propaganda aimed at the lay public. To clarify some points: Factor analysis is just an application of abstract vector space theory , and if it was bunk, then there wouldn't be dozens of applications of it in fields ranging from chemistry to electrical engineering Factor analysis is a mathematical tool for examining a wide range of data sets, with applications especially important to the design of experiments (DOE), spectroscopy, chromatography, and chemometrics. Whereas the first two editions concentrated on standardizing the fundamentals of this emerging discipline, the Third Edition of Factor Analysis in Chemistry, the "bible" of factor analysis, proves a comprehensive handbook at a level that is consistent with the research and design of experiments today

71. The Evolution Of Life On Earth By Stephen J. Gould Article written by stephen J. gould that discusses the evolution of life on Earth through a series of contingent and fortuitous events. http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/2948/gould.html

by Stephen Jay Gould The history of life is not necessarily progressive; it is certainly not predictable. The earth's creatures have evolved through a series of contingent and fortuitous events. STEPHEN JAY GOULD teaches biology, geology and the history of science at Harvard University, where he has been on the faculty since 1967. He received an A.B. from Antioch College and a PhD. in paleontology from Columbia University. Well known for his popular scientific writings, in particular his monthly column in Natural History magazine, he is the author of 13 books. Some creators announce their inventions with grand éclat. God proclaimed, "Fiat lux," and then flooded his new universe with brightness. Others bring forth great discoveries in a modest guise, as did Charles Darwin in defining his new mechanism of evolutionary causality in 1859: "I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection." Natural selection is an immensely powerful yet beautifully simple theory that has held up remarkably well, under intense and unrelenting scrutiny and testing, for 135 years. In essence, natural selection locates the mechanism of evolutionary change in a "struggle" among organisms for reproductive success, leading to improved fit of populations to changing environments. ( Struggle is often a metaphorical description and need not be viewed as overt combat, guns blazing. Tactics for reproductive success include a variety of non-martial activities such as earlier and more frequent mating or better cooperation with partners in raising offspring.) Natural selection is therefore a principle of local adaptation, not of general advance or progress.

72. Stephen J. Gould: Evolution As Fact And Theory According to idealized principles of scientific discourse, the arousal of dormant issues should reflect fresh data that give renewed life to abandoned http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/speakout/gould.html

Evolution as Fact and Theory STEPHEN JAY GOULD The Structure of Evolutionary Theory Natural History This article is abridged from Speak Out Against the New Right edited by Herbert F. Vetter (Boston: Beacon Press, 1982) Kirtley Mather, who died last year at age 89, was a pillar of both science and the Christian religion in America and one of my dearest friends. The difference of half a century in our ages evaporated before our common interests. The most curious thing we shared was a battle we each fought at the same age. For Kirtley had gone to Tennessee with Clarence Darrow to testify for evolution at the Scopes trial of 1925. When I think that we are enmeshed again in the same struggle for one of the best documented, most compelling and exciting concepts in all of science, I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Creationism Is Not Science The basic attack of the creationists falls apart on two general counts before we even reach the supposed factual details of their complaints against evolution. First, they play upon a vernacular misunderstanding of the word "theory" to convey the false impression that we evolutionists are covering up the rotten core of our edifice. Second, they misuse a popular philosophy of science to argue that they are behaving scientifically in attacking evolution. Yet the same philosophy demonstrates that their own belief is not science, and that "scientific creationism" is therefore meaningless and self-contradictory, a superb example of what Orwell called "newspeak."

73. ResourceShelf » Update — Resource Of The Week: The Official Stephen J. Go The Official stephen J. gould Archive, currently under development, The Unofficial stephen J. gould Archive is a simplebut-elegant website by Miguel http://www.resourceshelf.com/2007/10/22/resource-of-the-week-the-unofficial-step

var federated_media_section = ''; ResourceShelf is free, thanks to the support of our sponsors View our newsletter and subscribe – it’s free! Source File Science Resource of the Week By Shirl Kennedy, Senior Editor Rhonda R. Shearer , director of the Art Science Research Laboratory , a not-for-profit cofounded by Gould (her late husband) in 1998. She has provided us with information that, frankly, makes for a better, more accurate description of available resources. Thus, we felt this item should be updated. Read on. The Official Stephen J. Gould Archive If you click on the cyberLIBRARY link Ontogeny and Phylogeny and History of Earth and Life On the Origin of Species here . Read about its cyberBOOK+ Systems technology here The Unofficial Stephen J. Gould Archive is a simple-but-elegant website by Miguel Chavez, who is identified in the site’s FAQ as a student at Yuba College in Northern California. It appears to have been around since 2002. + A bibliography Quotations “Orchids manufacture their intricate devices from the common components of ordinary flowers, parts usually fitted for very different functions. If God had designed a beautiful machine to reflect his wisdom and power, surely he would not have used a collection of parts generally fashioned for other purposes. Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components. Thus, they must have evolved from ordinary flowers.” Multimedia , including links to freely available content as well as content that may be purchased.

74. Stephen Gould stephen gould was born on September 10, 1941 in New York City. He received an A.B. in 1963 from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/fghij/gould_stephen.html

Stephen Gould Stephen Gould was born on September 10, 1941 in New York City. He received an A.B. in 1963 from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. He then went to Graduate School in Evolutionary Biology and Paleontology at Columbia University . On October 3, 1965, he married Deborah Lee. In 1966, he became a Professor of Geology at Antioch College. The next year, he finished his doctoral work, earning a degree from Columbia. He also took an Assistant Professorship position at Harvard University . In 1971, he became an Associate Professor and in 1973, a Professor of Geology. Gould was one of the founders of the Punctuated Equilibrium School of Evolution. His most famous argument for punctuated equilibrium is the panda's "thumb." This is a modification of the wrist bone that allows the panda to strip leaves from bamboo shoots which Gould argued must have occurred all at once or it would not have been preserved by natural selection. He is best known for his regular column, "This View of Life," (since 1974) in Natural History magazine.

75. Stephen E. Jones: Creation/Evolution Quotes: Unclassified Quotes: July 2003 stephen E. Jones. Creation/Evolution Quotes Unclassified quotes July 2003 J. Richard Wakefield (1987) has explained in detail how the rocks http://members.iinet.net.au/~sejones/quotes/cequc307.html

Stephen E. Jones Creation/Evolution Quotes: Unclassified quotes: July 2003 Home Updates Site map Quotes ... Classified The following are unclassified quotes posted in my email messages in July, 2003. The date format is dd/mm/yy. See conditions at end. Jan-Mar Apr-Jun Aug Sep ... Oct-Dec single ultimate causes, while science speaks of proximate us Homo sapiens ; ultimately from them came the great races covering the globe today. If this was an act of creation, it could have been accomplished simply through DNA modification of selected members or a selected member of a particular population of ancient hominids." (Fischer D.*, "The Origins Solution: An Answer in the Creation-Evolution Debate," Fairway Press: Lima OH, 1996, p.25) 8/07/03 "Regardless of the creative method or evolutionary processes employed, from the first bipeds, or human forerunners, came beings whose bones keep popping up in various locations. Australopithicus africanus could have been a distant relative. A. boise and A. afarensis may have been offshoots. Homo habilis and later Homo erectus could have been their descendants leading to archaic Homo sapiens . It is assumed that modern Homo sapiens descended from archaic types. The Neanderthals, who began some 130,000 years ago and died out approximately 35,000 years ago, may have originated before modern

76. The Paleontological Society Grants in aid to students. http://www.paleosoc.org/grantin.html

ABOUT THE SOCIETY About Us Officers Society Committees Constitution and Bylaws ... Apply for 2008 Membership (On the wwweb) PUBLICATIONS Journal of Paleontology Paleobiology Special Publications, Society Papers, Short Courses, and Free Brochures Other Publication Links OTHER LINKS Media Services Paleontology Resources Distinguished Lecturer Series THE PALEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY Invites applications from student members for a limited number of $750 grants to support research in any field or aspect of paleontology Deadline February 25, 2008 Who may apply? Undergraduate and graduate student members of the Paleontological Society conducting research on any aspect of paleontology. How to apply: Please note: Revised guidelines in effect as of January 1, 2008. All applications and letters of support will be accepted electronically by e-mail submission to michalk@vt.edu . Please include the applicant's last name in the subject line of all items submitted by email. PDF attachments are preferred but MS Word-compatible documents will also be accepted. Complete the application form, downloaded from this site

A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z

Page 4     61-76 of 76    Back | 1  | 2  | 3  | 4