Stephen Jay Gould : reflections on his view of life / edited by Warren D. Allmon, Patricia H. Kelley, Robert M. Ross.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Allmon, Warren D., editor.

Kelley, Patricia H., editor.

Ross, Robert M. $q(Robert Merrill), 1963- editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gould, Stephen Jay.

Biology.

Natural history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (415 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Here is a set of reflections on the many areas of Gould's intellectual life by the people who knew and understood him best. Mostly a critical assessment of his legacy, the chapters offer a combination of intellectual bibliography, personal memoir, and reflection on Gould's diverse scientific achievements.

Contents:

The structure of Gould : happenstance, humanism, history, and the unity of his view of life / Warren D. Allmon

Diversity in the fossil record and Stephen Jay Gould's evolving view of the history of life / Richard K. Bambach

The legacy of punctuated equilibrium / Dana H. Geary

A tree grows in Queens : Stephen Jay Gould and ecology / Warren D. Allmon, Paul J. Morris, and Linda C. Ivany

Stephen Jay Gould's winnowing fork : science, religion, and creationism / Patricia H. Kelley

Top-tier : Stephen Jay Gould and mass extinctions / David C. Kendrick

Stephen Jay Gould - what does it mean to be a radical? / Richard C. Lewontin and Richard Levins

Evolutionary theory and the social uses of biology / Philip Kitcher

Stephen Jay Gould's evolving, hierarchical thoughts on stasis / Bruce S. Lieberman

Stephen Jay Gould : the scientist as educator / Robert M. Ross

Stephen Jay Gould : remembering a geologist / Jill S. Schneiderman

Gould's odyssey : form may follow function, or former function, and all species are equal (especially bacteria), but history is trumps / R.D.K. Thomas

The tree of life : Stephen Jay Gould's contributions to systematics / Margaret M. Yacobucci

Genetics and development : good as Gould / Robert L. Dorit

Bibliography : Stephen Jay Gould / compiled by Warren D. Allmon.

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Bibliography: Stephen Jay Gould": pages [335]-379.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-045181-5

0-19-770204-X

1-281-86839-6

9786611868390

0-19-970649-2

OCLC:

437094901