Ever Since Darwin

Ever Since Darwin

Infobox_Book
name = Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History


author = Stephen Jay Gould
cover_artist =
publisher = W. W. Norton & Company Incorporated
release_date = 1977
media_type = Hardcover
pages = 285
size_weight =
isbn = ISBN 0393064255

"Ever Since Darwin" was American paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould's first book. Published in 1977, it was a collection of essays originally published for Gould's monthly column in "Natural History" magazine. Edwin Barber—who was then the editorial director for W. W. Norton & Company—took note of the quality of Gould's essays and asked Gould "What's a smart fellow like you doing with no books in print?" He soon commissioned Gould to write "The Mismeasure of Man". It wasn't until three years later, when Gould accumulated 33 columns, did it occur to either of them that the columns should be published in a single volume. The collection of essays, written between 1973-1977, became a best-seller and propelled Stephen Jay Gould to national prominence.

Contents

  • Prologue
    1. Darwinia
      1. Darwin's delay
      2. Darwin's Sea Change, or Five Years at the Captain's Table
      3. Darwin's Dilemma: The Odyssey of Evolution
      4. [http://www.stephenjaygould.org/library/gould_tautology.html Darwin's Untimely Burial]
    2. Human Evolution
      1. A Matter of Degree
      2. Bushes and Ladders in Human Evolution
      3. The Child as Man's Real Father
      4. Human Babies as Embryos
    3. Odd Organisms and Evolutionary Exemplars
      1. The Misnamed, Mistreated and Misunderstood Irish Elk
      2. Organic Wisdom, or Why Should a Fly Eat Its Mother from Inside
      3. Of Bamboos, Cicadas and the Economy of Adam Smith
      4. The Problem of Perfection, or How can a Clam Mount a Fish on Its Rear End?
    4. Patterns and Punctuations in the History of Life
      1. The Pentagon of Life
      2. An Unsung Single-Celled Hero
      3. Is the Cambrian Explosion a Sigmoid Fraud?
      4. The Great Dying
    5. Theories of the Earth
      1. The Reverend Thomas' Dirty Little Planet
      2. Uniformity and Catastrophe
      3. [http://www.stephenjaygould.org/library/gould_velikovsky.html Velikovsky in Collision]
      4. [http://www.geophys.washington.edu/creager/ess202/continental_drift.htm The Validation of Continental Drift]
    6. Size and Shape, from Churches to Brains to Planets
      1. [http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/editors_pick/1974_01_pick.html Size and Shape]
      2. Sizing Up Human Intelligence
      3. History of the Vertebrate Brain
      4. Planetary Sizes and Surfaces
    7. Science in Society - A Historical View
      1. On Heroes and Fools in Science
      2. Posture Maketh the Man
      3. Racism and Recapitulation
      4. The Criminal as Nature's Mistake, or the Ape in Some of Us
    8. The Science and Politics of Human Nature
      1. Why We Should Not Name Human Races - A Biological View
      2. The Nonscience of Human Nature
      3. Racist Arguments and IQ
      4. Biological Potentiality vs. Biological Determinism
      5. So Cleverly Kind an Animal
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Blurbs

Reviews

* [http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/11/09/home/gould-darwin.html The History of a Theory] - by James Gorman, "The New York Times"

External links

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