Writing tagged: ‘stephen jay gould’
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Newsletter No. 22: ‘I ought to stick to Orchids’
Darwin on Abraham Lincoln • Darwin’s photograph collection • Alfred Russel Wallace • neural fossils • Punctuated Equilibrium at 50 • randomness in evolution • sexual selection and speciation • pollen wars • book update • and more…
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Newsletter No. 9: ‘Time flies’
Stolen notebooks • DNA barcoding • butterflies • Mary Anning • flowers • cool videos • insects • snakes • mammalian evolution • book reviews • and more…
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Book review: ‘Bully for Brontosaurus’ by Stephen Jay Gould
Reflections in natural history.
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Book review: ‘The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century’ by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Looking at the world through the eyes of a 17th-century polymath.
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Newsletter No. 8: ‘Reading for amusement’
Darwin reads Malthus • mass extinctions • earthworms • Gilbert White • Lonesome George • lichen • zebras • Neanderthals • life on Venus? • bats • book reviews • and more…
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Book review: ‘The Flamingo’s Smile’ by Stephen Jay Gould
Reflections in natural history.
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Book review: ‘The Panda’s Thumb’ by Stephen Jay Gould
More Reflections in Natural History.
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Book review: ‘Ever Since Darwin’ by Stephen Jay Gould
Reflections in Natural History.
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Book review: ‘Improbable Destinies’ by Jonathan Losos
How predictable is evolution?
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Spandrel sight-seeing
In which I visit the spandrels of San Marco in Venice.
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Book review: ‘The Mismeasure of Man’ by Stephen Jay Gould
Why intelligence testing is stupid.
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Book review: ‘The Structure of Evolutionary Theory’ by Stephen Jay Gould
The maestro’s magnum opus.