Stephen Jay Gould and the Politics of Evolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stephen Jay Gould and the Politics of Evolution write by David F. Prindle. This book was released on . Stephen Jay Gould and the Politics of Evolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Structure of Evolutionary Theory write by Stephen Jay Gould. This book was released on 2002-03-21. The Structure of Evolutionary Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The world’s most revered and eloquent interpreter of evolutionary ideas offers here a work of explanatory force unprecedented in our time—a landmark publication, both for its historical sweep and for its scientific vision. With characteristic attention to detail, Stephen Jay Gould first describes the content and discusses the history and origins of the three core commitments of classical Darwinism: that natural selection works on organisms, not genes or species; that it is almost exclusively the mechanism of adaptive evolutionary change; and that these changes are incremental, not drastic. Next, he examines the three critiques that currently challenge this classic Darwinian edifice: that selection operates on multiple levels, from the gene to the group; that evolution proceeds by a variety of mechanisms, not just natural selection; and that causes operating at broader scales, including catastrophes, have figured prominently in the course of evolution. Then, in a stunning tour de force that will likely stimulate discussion and debate for decades, Gould proposes his own system for integrating these classical commitments and contemporary critiques into a new structure of evolutionary thought. In 2001 the Library of Congress named Stephen Jay Gould one of America’s eighty-three Living Legends—people who embody the “quintessentially American ideal of individual creativity, conviction, dedication, and exuberance.” Each of these qualities finds full expression in this peerless work, the likes of which the scientific world has not seen—and may not see again—for well over a century.
The Politics of Evolution
The Politics of Evolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of Evolution write by David F. Prindle. This book was released on 2015-04-10. The Politics of Evolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The controversy over teaching evolution or creationism in American public schools offers a policy paradox. Two sets of values—science and democracy—are in conflict when it comes to the question of what to teach in public school biology classes. Prindle illuminates this tension between American public opinion, which clearly prefers that creationism be taught in public school biology classes, versus the ideal that science, and only science, be taught in those classes. An elite consisting of scientists, professional educators, judges, and business leaders by and large are determined to ignore public preferences and teach only science in science classes despite the majority opinion to the contrary. So how have the political process and the Constitutional law establishment managed to thwart the people’s will in this self-proclaimed democracy? Drawing on a vast body of work across the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities, Prindle explores the rhetoric of the evolution issue, explores its history, examines the nature of the public opinion that causes it, evaluates the Constitutional jurisprudence that upholds it, and explains the political dynamic that keeps it going. This incisive analysis is a must-read in a wide range of disciplines and for anyone who wants to understand the politics of biology.
Full House
Full House - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Full House write by Stephen Jay Gould. This book was released on 2011-10. Full House available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gould shows why a more accurate way of understanding our world is to look at a given subject within its own context, to see it as a part of a spectrum of variation and then to reconceptualize trends as expansion or contraction of this “full house” of variation, and not as the progress or degeneration of an average value, or single thing.
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History write by Stephen Jay Gould. This book was released on 1990-09-17. Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "[An] extraordinary book. . . . Mr. Gould is an exceptional combination of scientist and science writer. . . . He is thus exceptionally well placed to tell these stories, and he tells them with fervor and intelligence."—James Gleick, New York Times Book Review High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It hold the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived—a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in awesome detail. In this book Stephen Jay Gould explores what the Burgess Shale tells us about evolution and the nature of history.
