It’s always a pleasure to read Stephen Jay Gould, although I don’t always agree with him.
Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in, Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History: Reflections on Natural History. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. Many of the essays could be well used in high school classes to teach and encourage critical thinking and novel approaches to what is commonly held as "fact." Dommage, ダーウィン進化論の登場以来、われわれの生命観は劇的に変わった。だがその一方で、ダーウィンの説ほど誤解され、誤用されてきた理論もない。それはなぜなのか。現代進化生物学の旗手グールドは、ダーウィンの原理を出発点としながら科学と社会、文化全般のありように新たな光をあてる。生命への限りない愛情と人類の未来への希望を巧みな語り口で綴る。. These ebooks can only be redeemed by recipients in the US. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. When it comes to popular writings on Evolution, the two names I most often hear are Dawkins and Gould.
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Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. Thirty years is a long time for a science book, but there's several essays worth reading in this one. In this later section, you get some interesting essays such as one over the Irish Elk and my favorite essay about the lampsilis mussel, which makes itself look like a swimming fish in order to get attacked by larger fish, then it shoots spores into the larger fish. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. It’s always a pleasure to read Stephen Jay Gould, although I don’t always agree with him. Learn about Author Central. He also is a very proficient statistician. While I've read several books from Dawkins, this is my first one from Gould. Of course, the straight biology-genetics can be a bit dated, but the essence holds up amazingly well. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. The effect of size on intellectual potential of the brains of different species, for instance ants vs humans, is the topic under discussion in the Sizing up of Human Intelligence. Please try again. Understandable For Those Without a Background in Biology, Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2015. The Apple of Knowledge: Introducing the Philosophical Scientific Method and Pure Em... XYAB Economics: A GOLD Libertarian Analysis of Money, Trade, and Freedom, “A remarkable achievement by any measure. He was known as one of the leading evolutionary biologist of the 20th century.
Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. There's a problem loading this menu right now. There's a problem loading this menu right now. Learn more. He also manages to approach "accepted" theories from unusual directions, sometimes with novel and provokative results! Dr. Gould is a truely gifted writer with a wonderful wit and colorful style. Within this collection of essay, he demonstrates a proficient and deep understanding of anthropology, sociology, astrophysics, geology, paleontology, physiology, etc. And, it shows. This is a collection of Essays covering a wide expanse of evolutionary theory and its implications.
Something went wrong. Even now, Gould's work stands up and provides the depth lacking in Kolbert's. Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is a service we offer sellers that lets them store their products in Amazon's fulfillment centers, and we directly pack, ship, and provide customer service for these products. Are you an author? In addition, he writes like a professional nonfiction writer. I would not just recommend the book to you, I would encourage you to read it cover to cover! This book makes me want to read more of his works. Bonus: Gould is a delight to read and he pulls material not only from biology but also from geology (and theology, and philosophy, and more). If you're a seller, Fulfillment by Amazon can help you grow your business. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. I would not just recommend the book to you, I would encourage you to read it cover to cover! A delight on every page! Something we hope you'll especially enjoy: FBA items qualify for FREE Shipping and Amazon Prime.
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Overall the essays vary in quality but for the most part they're good, although some are a little dated (which happens with any science books published 35-40 years ago). Read with the free Kindle apps (available on iOS, Android, PC & Mac), Kindle E-readers and on Fire Tablet devices. Use the Amazon App to scan ISBNs and compare prices.
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short treatments of disparate matters touching upon evolution and extinction. He's definitely got a 'point of view' but he also finds it possible to praise those he disagrees with. Live. You are listening to a sample of the Audible narration for this Kindle book. Dommage, ダーウィン進化論の登場以来、われわれの生命観は劇的に変わった。だがその一方で、ダーウィンの説ほど誤解され、誤用されてきた理論もない。それはなぜなのか。現代進化生物学の旗手グールドは、ダーウィンの原理を出発点としながら科学と社会、文化全般のありように新たな光をあてる。生命への限りない愛情と人類の未来への希望を巧みな語り口で綴る。. My favorite ones were the first section over Darwin and a section which looks at odd organisms. Les critiques faites par d'autre scientifiques démontrent qu'il s'agit plus d'effets d'annonce que d'avancée scientifique. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. Do you believe that this item violates a copyright? W.W. Norton & Co.,1977. Ever Since Darwin is the first collection of Gould's essays, published back in the 1970s. He has a broad range of interests and knowledge and an interesting circle of friends and collegues upon whose wisdom he also draws (Astronomer Sagan, Geologists Press and Siever, were among those with whose work I was familiar). Please try again. Stephen Jay Gould published multiple book collections of his essays originally written for Nature magazine, and this is one of them. . There is also an interesting discussion of the human baby as an unfinished embryo, with interesting implications for the upper limit on brain size and for human evolution as a whole. Additional gift options are available when buying one eBook at a time. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness.
[Gould] is profoundly intelligent, a writer of great natural wit, and his sophistication and learning range far beyond the parameters of his academic field, biology. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.
He's also an incredible narrator, which I think makes this book accessible to non-biologists too. The collection of essays includes an interesting work on the effects of the personality of the Captain of the Beagle on the formulation of Darwin's theories; a subject that had certainly never occurred to me. Many of the essays could be well used in high school classes to teach and encourage critical thinking and novel approaches to what is commonly held as "fact."
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