Writing tagged: ‘stephen jay gould’
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Book review: ‘The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister’s Pox’ by Stephen Jay Gould
Mending and Minding the Misconceived Gap Between Science and the Humanities.
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The surprise punctuationist
On how Charles Darwin believed that evolution did not have to occur at a constant rate.
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Remind you of anything?
Languages evolve in sudden leaps, not creeps.
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Deconstructing Watson
Why we need to be careful when reporting stories on genetics/race/intelligence.
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Gould would have loved this
Evolutionary ‘big bang’ gave rise to flowering plants.
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Well worth 20 minutes
Gould and Lewontin’s ‘The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm’.
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Reversing Darwin
In which Gould, Dawkins and Darwin all make a contribution.
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A straggly bush
My memorial to Stephen Jay Gould.
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Triassic Explosion
Fossil research suggests ‘mass dying’ triggered teeming oceans.
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Blind testing
A interesting new study lends support to Darwin’s suggestion that certain facial expressions might be inherited.