史蒂芬·古尔德

《熊猫的拇指：自然史沉思录》是哈佛大学古生物学家斯蒂芬·杰·古尔德31篇随笔的结集。这是第二部由古尔德发表在《自然史》每月专栏《这种生命观》所发表的文章挑选结集而来的书。这些文章中反复出现的主题是进化及其教义、科学传记、可能性和常识。 首篇文章《熊猫的拇指》描述了一个矛盾，有时劣等的设计比好的设计能更好的充当进化论的论据，解剖学上熊猫的“拇指”其实根本就不是拇指，而是由桡籽骨构成。其他文章讨论到女性大脑、皮尔当人骗局、唐氏综合症以及恐龙与鸟类的关系。 …

"[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 …

Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville: A Lifelong Passion for Baseball is a book by Stephen Jay Gould.

Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle is a 1987 history of geology by Stephen Jay Gould offering a historical account of the conceptualization of Deep Time and uniformitarianism using the works of Thomas Burnet, James Hutton, and Charles Lyell.

The individual in Darwinʼs world is a book by Stephen Jay Gould.

The Structure of Evolutionary Theory is a technical book on macroevolutionary theory by Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, published only two months before his death. The volume is divided into two parts. The first is a historical study and exegesis of classical evolutionary thought, drawing extensively upon …