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Stephen Jay Gould is the author of La falsa medida del hombre (2025), Un dinosaurio en un pajar (2018), Darwin et les grandes énigmes de la vie (2014), I Have Landed (2011), Full House (2011).

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La falsa medida del hombre

release date: Jan 01, 2025
La falsa medida del hombre
Desmonta las teorías racistas que condujeron en el siglo XX a la matanza de millones de seres humanos y que hoy siguen perpetuando la pobreza y la injusticia social. Gould estudia los diversos intentos realizados a lo largo del tiempo para medir la inteligencia humana: primero mediante los cráneos, más tarde por medio del coeficiente intelectual y, finalmente, con análisis sociológicos como la curva de Bell, siempre reafirmando la naturaleza hereditaria de la capacidad intelectual y, por ende, la inutilidad de cualquier esfuerzo cultural y educativo.

Un dinosaurio en un pajar

release date: Jan 01, 2018

Darwin et les grandes énigmes de la vie

release date: Oct 01, 2014

I Have Landed

release date: Oct 01, 2011
I Have Landed
Gould’s final essay collection is based on his remarkable series for Natural History magazine—exactly 300 consecutive essays, with never a month missed, published from 1974 to 2001. Both an intellectually thrilling journey into the nature of scientific discovery and the most personal book he ever published.

Full House

release date: Oct 01, 2011
Full House
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.

Dinosaur in a Haystack

release date: Oct 01, 2011
Dinosaur in a Haystack
Gould's seventh collection of essays covers a wide range of subjects in natural history, literature, and popular culture--from the wisdom of Charles Darwin to that of the Old Testament Psalms, from the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park to the dinosaurs of the latest scientific theories, from the thwarted humanity of the Frankenstein monster to the inhuman fallacies of eugenics and other pseudoscience. With black and white illustrations. "Here is a new collection of Gould's unexpected connections between evolution and all manner of subjects, literature high among them. Gathered from his monthly column in "Natural History magazine, these articles should delight, surprise, and inform his vast readership, as have his six prior volumes of essays. Somehow the light bulb pops on every month as his deadline approaches, some glowing fact pulled out of memory--often a line from Shakespeare or Tennyson--that illumines a generality Gould wishes to discuss. "Nature, red in tooth and claw" (Lord Alfred's line) induces dilations on the extent science can inform moral matters (not much, Gould believes); a remembrance of the infamous Wansee protocol prompts Gould's denunciation of the genocidal looting of evolutionary theory and, by extension, its vulnerability to ignoramuses in general. These two examples of the Gouldian essay method, fortunately, don't foreshadow a gloomy parade of topics: Gould can as easily alight at the fun house where mass culture absorbs ideas about evolution through movies of monsters run amok from Frankenstein to Jurassic Park. In other essays, he plunges directly into matters of evolutionary interpretation but customarily employs a literary twist: who else but Gould could linkEdgar Allan Poe with his own area of professional eminence, the paleontology of snails? A discovery awaits in every essay--in every haystack--which solidifies Gould as one of the most eloquent science popularizers writing today." --"Booklist

Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

release date: Oct 01, 2011
Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms
This unique volume of 21 recent essays published in "Natural History" magazine consciously formulates a humanistic natural history, telling how humans have learned to study and understand nature, rather than a history of nature itself. 41 illustrations.

Bully for Brontosaurus

release date: Nov 29, 2010
Bully for Brontosaurus
"Provocative and delightfully discursive essays on natural history. . . . Gould is the Stan Musial of essay writing. He can work himself into a corkscrew of ideas and improbable allusions paragraph after paragraph and then, uncoiling, hit it with such power that his fans know they are experiencing the game of essay writing at its best."--John Noble Wilford, New York Times Book Review

Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History

release date: Nov 29, 2010
Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History
"There is no scientist today whose books I look forward to reading with greater anticipation of enjoyment and enlightenment than Stephen Jay Gould."—Martin Gardner Among scientists who write, no one illuminates as well as Stephen Jay Gould doesthe wonderful workings of the natural world. Now in a new volume of collected essays—his sixth since Ever Since Darwin—Gould speaks of the importance of unbroken connections within our own lives and to our ancestralgenerations. Along with way, he opens to us the mysteries of fish tails, frog calls, and other matters, and shows once and for all why we must take notice when a seemingly insignificant creature is threatened, like the land snail Partula from Moorea, whose extinction he movingly relates.

An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas

release date: Nov 29, 2010
An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas
"What pleasure to see the dishonest, the inept, and the misguided deftly given their due, while praise is lavished on the deserving—for reasons well and truly stated."—Kirkus Reviews Ranging as far as the fox and as deep as the hedgehog (the urchin of his title), Stephen Jay Gould expands on geology, biological determinism, "cardboard Darwinism," and evolutionary theory in this sparkling collection.

Érase una vez el zorro y el erizo

release date: Jul 28, 2010
Érase una vez el zorro y el erizo
El título de este libro que no esperábamos es Érase una vez el zorro y el erizo, y su tema, la interacción entre ciencias y humanidades, los beneficios que ambas pueden extraer de una fructífera relación. Pocos temas podrían ser tan actuales para todos y más adecuados para Gould, científico y humanista; persona en la que la racionalidad analítica del magnífico biólogo evolutivo y paleontólogo que siempre fue, nunca ahogó una increíble erudición clásica e histórica, al igual que la capacidad de conmover con sus escritos y ser conmovido por la vida, por esa vida sobre la que tanto y tan bien escribió. Utiliza el zorro y el erizo como modelos y metáforas para la manera en que ciencias y humanidades pueden interactuar.

I have landed

release date: Jan 01, 2009

Punctuated Equilibrium

release date: May 31, 2007
Punctuated Equilibrium
In 1972 Stephen Jay Gould took the scientific world by storm with his paper on punctuated equilibrium, written with Niles Eldredge. Challenging a core assumption of Darwin''s theory of evolution, it launched the career of one of the most influential evolutionary biologists of our time--perhaps the best known since Darwin. Now, thirty-five years later, and five years after his untimely death, Punctuated Equilibrium (originally published as the central chapter of Gould''s masterwork, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory) offers his only book-length testament on an idea he fiercely promoted, repeatedly refined, and tirelessly defended. Punctuated equilibrium holds that the great majority of species originate in geological moments (punctuations) and persist in stasis. The idea was hotly debated because it forced biologists to rethink entrenched ideas about evolutionary patterns and processes. But as Gould shows here in his typically exhaustive coverage, the idea has become the foundation of a new view of hierarchical selection and macroevolution. What emerges strikingly from this book is that punctuated equilibrium represents a much broader paradigm about the nature of change--a worldview that may be judged as a distinctive and important movement within recent intellectual history. Indeed we may now be living within a punctuation, and our awareness of what this means may be the enduring legacy of one of America''s best-loved scientists.

The Richness of Life

release date: Jan 01, 2007
The Richness of Life
This spotlight on an extraordinary mind collects the most entertaining and enlightening writings by the beloved paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and celebrant of the wonder of life. 20 illustrations.

Ocho cerditos

release date: Jan 01, 2007
Ocho cerditos
Este libro tiene el mismo encanto que muchos otros de Stephen Jay Gould, pero tal vez mayor hondura. En sus páginas encontraremos historias sorprendentes (como la de George el Solitario, el último superviviente de una especie de tortugas que habrá desaparecido cuando él muera), descubriremos aspectos desconocidos de la historia de los seres vivos (que los primeros vertebrados terrestres tenían ocho dedos en cada mano –y cómo hemos llegado a tener sólo cinco-), o curiosos episodios de la historia de la ciencia (en qué se basaba el obispo Ussher para afirmar que la Creación había tenido lugar el año 4004 a. C., en un 23 de octubre y a mediodía). Al lado de éstas y otras historias sorprendentes se encontrarán ensayos que tienen una mayor ambición, como el que trata de los rasgos básicos de la conciencia humana, el que se ocupa de reflexionar sobre la historia inicial de la vida pluricelular, o los que hablan de hallazgos que enriquecen la galería de animales insólitos que nos mostró en La vida maravillosa.

La structure de la théorie de l'évolution

release date: Jan 01, 2006
La structure de la théorie de l'évolution
L'auteur, paléontologiste américain, réexamine la théorie darwinienne et néo-darwinienne de l'évolution et propose une nouvelle théorie de l'évolution.

Le renard et le hérisson

release date: Jan 01, 2005
Le renard et le hérisson
Dernier livre de Gould, Le Renard et le Hérisson est aussi une manière de testament intellectuel : le programme de son œuvre vulgarisatrice - combler le fossé entre la science et les humanités - est le sous-titre de l'ouvrage. Avec une merveilleuse érudition qui relie Archiloque à Swift, Nabokov à Claude Perrault et, Edgar Poe à Erasme, et dans une prose foisonnante, voire baroque, il retrace les grandes lignes de la Révolution scientifique et de la vieille querelle entre science et humanités, à laquelle il propose avec sagesse de mettre fin. A la fois chercheur scientifique et écrivain, n'ayant jamais compris comment l'on pouvait découpler la science de son, substrat culturel, Gould dévoile les trésors de rhétorique qui structurent le discours scientifique et souligne l'importance des thèmes savants dans l'art et la littérature. Régler son compte au vieux mythe des " deux cultures " : tel aura été le dernier combat de S.J. Gould.

A falsa medida do homem

release date: Jan 01, 2003

Why People Believe Weird Things

release date: Sep 01, 2002
Why People Believe Weird Things
"This sparkling book romps over the range of science and anti-science." --Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel Revised and Expanded Edition. In this age of supposed scientific enlightenment, many people still believe in mind reading, past-life regression theory, New Age hokum, and alien abduction. A no-holds-barred assault on popular superstitions and prejudices, with more than 80,000 copies in print, Why People Believe Weird Things debunks these nonsensical claims and explores the very human reasons people find otherworldly phenomena, conspiracy theories, and cults so appealing. In an entirely new chapter, "Why Smart People Believe in Weird Things," Michael Shermer takes on science luminaries like physicist Frank Tippler and others, who hide their spiritual beliefs behind the trappings of science. Shermer, science historian and true crusader, also reveals the more dangerous side of such illogical thinking, including Holocaust denial, the recovered-memory movement, the satanic ritual abuse scare, and other modern crazes. Why People Believe Strange Things is an eye-opening resource for the most gullible among us and those who want to protect them.

The Structure of Evolutionary Theory

release date: Mar 21, 2002
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
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.

O polegar do panda

release date: Jan 01, 2002
O polegar do panda
O autor procura ampliar e aprofundar sua abordagem sobre a evolução, conceito central da ciência moderna.

The Lying Stones of Marrakech

release date: Jan 01, 2000
The Lying Stones of Marrakech
Essays cover a wide range of topics, including the nature of fossils, evolution, and biodiversity.

Les quatre antilopes de l'Apocalypse

release date: Jan 01, 2000
Les quatre antilopes de l'Apocalypse
" Ce septième volume de mes essais présente les conceptions évolutionnistes appliquées à de nouveaux sujets. Les uns relèvent de la réflexion intellectuelle, qu''ils soient tirés de la littérature, un domaine que je me prends à aimer de plus en plus, ou bien de l''astronomie et de la science des calendriers, des passions que je tiens de l''enfance et qui venaient, à cette époque, en deuxième position après la paléontologie, ou peut-être en quatrième, après le base-ball et la philatélie. Les autres thèmes nouveaux sont d''ordre social et politique, du rôle des muséums aux diverses facettes de l''eugénisme. Mais je reste toujours fidèle dans ce livre à mon sujet central, la théorie de l''évolution. J''y traite des problèmes du darwinisme et des modalités, souvent très surprenantes, du déroulement de l''évolution et j''y remets en question les idées traditionnelles. Finalement, en accord avec mon amour de l''histoire, j''ai illustré un grand nombre de mes thèmes de prédilection en montrant comment ils se sont exprimés dans la vie et l''œuvre de personnages fascinants, tels Laplace, Mary Shelley, Swift ou Poe. " S. J. G.

Et Dieu dit " Que Darwin soit ! "

release date: Jan 01, 2000
Et Dieu dit " Que Darwin soit ! "
Depuis la Renaissance, le problème des rapports entre science et religion a marqué la culture occidentale. L''abjuration forcée de Galilée, tout récemment regrettée par le pape, les féroces affrontements autour de Darwin, la résurgence du créationnisme aux Etats-Unis et la tentation embarrassée de récupérer la cosmologie du big bang à des fins apologétiques marquent assez la permanence de ce débat et son actualité. Déjà au XVIIIe siècle, Alexander Pope, dans une célèbre épigramme, avait ironiquement commenté la difficulté de réconcilier une vision théologique traditionnelle et les nouvelles découvertes scientifiques : " La Nature et ses lois gisaient cachées dans les ténèbres. Dieu dit " Que Newton soit " et tout s''illumina. " Plus tôt encore, Galilée avait insisté sur la séparation des buts poursuivis par la science et la religion, arguant que, si la première peut nous dire comment est le ciel, seule la seconde peut nous enseigner comment y aller. Le grand paléontologue Stephen J. Gould, plus que tout autre scientifique de notre époque, a dû affronter ces problèmes. Il reprend l''idée d''une sage distinction entre ces deux grandes institutions de l''esprit humain, et affirme la nécessité d''un principe de " non-empiètement des magistères " (NOMA) entre science et religion. A cet essai bref et pénétrant, la préface du philosophe Dominique Lecourt apporte un précieux éclairage.

Melancholies of Knowledge

Melancholies of Knowledge
Scholars in the exact and social sciences join literary critics to consider the work of French author Michel Rio and to reflect on literature''s place in intellectual discourse in an age dominated by science.

Illusion Fortschritt

release date: Jan 01, 1999

La foire aux dinosaures

release date: Jan 01, 1997
La foire aux dinosaures
" Je ne suis pas un érudit, mais un artisan. " La formule, qui pourrait sembler faussement modeste, définit bien la stratégie de son auteur. Car Stephen Jay Gould est persuadé que ce n''est pas en se mesurant de front aux grandes questions - et la biologie de l''évolution, thème central de son oeuvre, en est une - que l''on parvient à coup sûr aux réflexions les plus profondes. Il préfère, quant à lui, partir de petites histoires d''apparence anodine, de ces " innombrables petits faits curieux " dont il tire, au terme d''une analyse pénétrante et pleine d''humour, les petits joyaux que sont les chroniques mensuelles qu''il écrit depuis bientôt vingt ans. Ce livre, qui en est le cinquième recueil, parle ainsi des règles du jeu de base-ball et de la mode des dinosaures, des claviers de machines à écrire et de la défaite du créationnisme, de la couleur des flamants roses et de la mort de Lavoisier. Autant de thèmes qui, pour Gould, " témoignent que Dieu réside vraiment dans les détails ".

Un hérisson dans la tempête

release date: Jan 01, 1996
Un hérisson dans la tempête
Stephen Jay Gould s''est imposé à la fois comme l''un des meilleurs paléontologues américains d''aujourd''hui et comme l''un de nos plus grands vulgarisateurs scientifiques. Un hérisson dans la tempête continue et amplifie la réflexion entreprise sur les sciences elles-mêmes et sur l''histoire de la vie. Dans la lignée du Pouce du Panda, il nous ouvre, avec esprit et verve, la perspective d''un évolutionnisme qui s''efforce de comprendre l''histoire dans ce qu''elle a d''irréductiblement contingent, mais aussi d''accessible à la raison. Le vieil aphorisme attribué à Archiloque dit: "Le renard sait beaucoup de choses, mais le hérisson sait quelque chose d''important". Le premier incarne la souplesse face à la complexité et à la diversité de notre monde, le second la cohérence. C''est cette double approche que Stephen Jay Gould préconise pour expliquer le devenir du vivant, tout en appréciant la diversité sous toutes ses formes, et pour éviter un rationalisme réducteur qui risque d''entraîner dans le piège de rêveries dangereuses.

The Book of Life

release date: May 01, 1995
The Book of Life
A lavishly illustrated history makes use of the best new research and delicate paintings and line drawings to examine the varied forms of life over the past half a billion years and their relationship to the environment. Reprint.
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