Gould, Stephen Jay

Gould, Stephen Jay. Dinosaur in A Haystack. Harmony Books, New York. 1995. 

Gould, Stephen Jay. Wonderful Life. The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History. New York W.W. Norton Company,... 

Gould, Stephen Jay. Time s Arrow, Time s Cycle Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geolo cal Time. Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 1987. 

However, the implications are profound. If we were to start the history of biological evolution all over again, says Stephen Jay Gould (Gould, 1989),... 

In a wonderful article [12] the late Stephen Jay Gould discusses that life based on solar energy and photosynthesis may be the exception rather than the rule. Equally, he disputes that the bulk of life s biomass should reside in the wood of trees in our forests and argues that the mass of subterranean living material as that of bacteria is comparable to that at the surface and is possibly in excess of it. 

After attacking Hitching—as well as scientists Richard Goldschmidt and Stephen Jay Gould—for worrying about the eye s complexity, Dawkins goes on to paraphrase Charles Darwin s argument for the plausibility of eye evolution ... 

When scientists debate rival theories to explain them." Stephen Jay Gould, 1941-2002... 

Details on antebellum justifications for racial differences are insightfully covered in John S. Haller, Outcasts from Evolution Scientific Attitudes of Racial Inferiority, 1859-1900, new edition (Carbondale Southern Illinois University Press, 1995), esp. pp. 74-84 and Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man, revised and expanded edition (New York W. W. Norton, 1996), esp. 71-74, 101-103. 

For an account of Lavoisier s life and his friendship with Benjamin Franklin, see Stephen Jay Gould The passion of Antoine Lavoisier. Bully for Brontosaurus, New York, Norton, 1991. 

These catfights among the Darwinians continue right down to today. In order to drive home the point that evolution has no goal and that humans are a complete fluke, the late Harvard professor Stephen Jay Gould insisted that if we rewound the tape of evolution and started the whole process over again, the chances would be... 

Humans are creatures of habit. In many labs some conditions and procedures may exist that have existed for years (without incident) but still represent unsafe conditions that pose unnecessary risk. It is often hardest to see unsafe conditions that have become familiar to you. Furthermore, when entering a new lab with many preexisting conditions, procedures, and people, it is easy to get trained to function in an environment and manner that had been considered safe for years, even though it never was safe, or that changing rules and norms made unsafe today. Stephen Jay Gould s quote reminds us that it is often hardest to clearly and objectively see those things that are familiar, and perhaps important, to us. The thoughtful scientist enters a new lab with new eyes and asks questions. The safety inspection described below provides a framework to review labs that are either new to you, or very familiar to you. 

S. J. Gould. BrainyQuote available at http //www.brainyquote.com/ quotes/authors/s/stephen Jay gould.html (accessed May 1, 2009). 

Williams takes the long view. He sees the random variation among species as an engine that drives how chemotypes are fully realized as a group. This is a very different emphasis from Stephen Jay Gould s Wonderful Life (1990), which emphasizes the random walk of speciation for individuals. These two descriptions may very weU be compatible, Gould s view from up close at the organism level, and WiUiams s view from afar, across eons of time, at the chemical/chemotype level. 

I ll save you the trouble of skipping ahead to where the data are described. R. J. P. Williams was right. The chemical trends he identified are reflected in the genomic data, with a few exceptions, and he predicted it all from chemical rules like the Irving-Williams series. This means that, over 4 billion years, chemistry shaped biology. It also contradicts Wonderful Life. Stephen Jay Gould s tape of life would look much the same upon replay, because its events, when examined from the proper perspective, were shaped by universal and predictable chemical laws. 

Because the nature of history is a philosophical topic, how you look at it is shaped by prior convictions. Stephen Jay Gould s book Wonderful Life is also about the nature of history, and in my first and last chapters 1 discuss how Gould s interpretations were shaped by his prior convictions. However, 1 don t intend to throw stones, because my own prior convictions undoubtedly shaped this book. 

Patients suffering from a variety of illnesses claim that smoking marijuana helps alleviate many of their symptoms. It is reported to reduce nausea and vomiting in cancer patients. When the famous biologist Stephen Jay Gould was being treated for abdominal mesothelioma cancer, he smoked marijuana to reduce the effects of the nausea he... 

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