The darwinian theory of evolution is a wellknown, wellexplored area. Wonderful life the burgess shale and the nature of history. In it one meets a great thinker and can ponder with him some of the most disturbing philosophical implications of evolutionary theory. In goulds view, the outcome of this gedanken experiment would have been dramatically different from the actually observed course of events because. The volume made the new york times best seller list, was the 1991 winner of the royal societys rhonepoulenc prize, the american historical associations forkosch award, and was a 1991 finalist for the pulitzer prize. Gould spent most of his career teaching at harvard university and working at the american museum of natural history in new york. Request pdf on aug 1, 2002, sean b carroll and others published stephen jay gould. The history of life is a story of massive removal followed by differentiation within a few surviving stocks, not the conventional tale of steadily increasing excellence, complexity, and diversity.
Wonderful life, indeed one of the best science books i have ever read because the story is so extraordinary. For gould this means that life is maximal at the start, exploding in different shapes and styles that are subjected to the contingencies of history. In march of 2000, he took part in the annual meeting of the american institute of biological sciences, themed challenges for the new millennium, at the smithsonian museum of natural history in washington, d. In this book stephen jay gould explores what the burgess shale tells us about evolution and the nature of history. Aug 20, 2010 the median isnt the message by stephen j gould. The flamingos smile, the mismeasure of man, wonderful life, and full house. The burgess shale and the nature of history by stephen jay gould for online ebook. In this book stephen jay gould explores what the burgess shale might tell us about evolution and the nature of history. Scientists have a favorite term for describing a phenomenon like wat.
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