Stephen Jay Gould

"[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 …

When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits. And yet the idea of innate limits—of biology as destiny—dies hard, as witness the attention devoted to The Bell …

Le Pouce du Panda, est un livre de vulgarisation scientifique de Stephen Jay Gould sorti en 1980. Il s'agit du second tome de la compilation des essais parus dans la chronique This view of life du mensuel Natural History.

Les chroniques que S. Jay Gould publie depuis plus de vingt ans dans le Natural History Magazine ont sans doute fait davantage pour expliquer la théorie de l'évolution que des montagnes d'ouvrages savants. L'étonnant mélange gouldien de science, d'histoire et de littérature a passionné les lecteurs du Sourire du …

La Foire Aux Dinosaures (R_flexions Sur L'histoire Naturelle) [Poche] by Step...

Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin is a 1996 book by evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould. It was released in the UK as Life's Grandeur, with the same subtitle and with an additional 8-page introduction entitled "A Baseball Primer for British Readers".

Dinosaur in a Haystack is the seventh volume of collected essays by the Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. The essays were culled from his monthly column "The View of Life" in Natural History magazine, to which Gould contributed for 27 years. The book deals, in typically discursive fashion, with themes familiar …

Quand les poules auront des dents, est un livre de vulgarisation scientifique de Stephen Jay Gould. Il s'agit du troisième tome de la compilation des essais parus dans la chronique This view of life du mensuel Natural History. Trois essais paraissent indépendamment : L'évolution : fait et théorie dans le magazine …

The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History, published in 1985, is the fourth volume of collected essays from evolutionary biologist and well-known science writer Stephen Jay Gould; the essays were culled from his monthly column The View of Life in Natural History magazine, to which Gould contributed for more …

Eight Little Piggies is the sixth volume of collected essays by the Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. The essays were selected from his monthly column "The View of Life" in Natural History magazine, to which Gould contributed for 27 years. The book deals, in typically discursive fashion, with themes familiar …