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New Releases by Stephen Jay Gould

Stephen Jay Gould is the author of La falsa medida del hombre (2025), Ever Since Darwin (2014), I Have Landed (2011), The Lying Stones of Marrakech (2011), Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms (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.

Ever Since Darwin

release date: Jan 31, 2014
Ever Since Darwin
More than any other modern scientists, Stephen Jay Gould has opened up to millions the wonders of evolutionary biology. His genius as an essayist lies in his unmatched ability to use his knowledge of the world, including popular culture, to illuminate the realm of science. Ever Since Darwin, Stephen Jay Gould''s first book, has sold more than a quarter of a million copies. Like all succeeding collections by this unique writer, it brings the art of the scientific essay to unparalleled heights.

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.

The Lying Stones of Marrakech

release date: Oct 01, 2011
The Lying Stones of Marrakech
Gould covers topics as diverse as episodes in the birth of paleontology to lessons from Britain’s four greatest Victorian naturalists. This collection presents the richness and fascination of the various lives that have fueled the enterprise of science and opened our eyes to a world of unexpected wonders.

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.

The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox

release date: Oct 01, 2011
The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox
In his ?nal book and his ?rst full-length original title since Full House in 1996, the eminent paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould offers a surprising and nuanced study of the complex relationship between our two great ways of knowing: science and the humanities, twin realms of knowledge that have been divided against each other for far too long. In building his case, Gould shows why the common assumption of an inescapable conflict between science and the humanities is false, mounts a spirited rebuttal to the ideas that his intellectual rival E. O. Wilson set forth in his book Consilience, and explains why the pursuit of knowledge must always operate upon the bedrock of nature’s randomness. The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister’s Pox is a controversial discourse, rich with facts and observations gathered by one of the most erudite minds of our time.

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

Intelligenza e pregiudizio. Contro i fondamenti scientifici del razzismo

release date: Jan 01, 2008

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ein Dinosaurier im Heuhaufen

release date: Jan 01, 2000

Questioning the Millennium

release date: Jan 01, 1999
Questioning the Millennium
The noted naturalist sheds new light on humankind's fascination with the approaching millennium, offering a collection of scientific and historical essays on the millennium and its significance

Illusion Fortschritt

release date: Jan 01, 1999

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.

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.

La vida maravillosa

release date: Jan 01, 1996

A vida é bela

release date: Jan 01, 1995
A vida é bela
Nas montanhas Rochosas canadianas formou-se há 530 milhões de anos o Xisto de Burgess, onde jazem os restos de um mar antigo que albergou mais seres vivos do que todos os que povoam actualmente os nossos oceanos - criaturas inacreditavelmente bem conservadas, como o estranho Opabinia, com cinco olhos, ou o Sidneyia, cujo tubo digestivo revela ainda a última refeição que tomou. A sua descoberta no início do século por Charles Walcott poderia ter revolucionado os conhecimentos sobre a evolução. Walcott não foi, porém, capaz de interpretar correctamente a mensagem inscrita nos fosséis de Burgess, tendo-os atribuído invariavelmente a filos conhecidos de anelídeos e artrópodes. E as coisas mantiveram-se assim até Harry Whittington ter resolvido abrir as gavetas de Walcott quarenta anos mais tarde. A história das razões que levaram ao fracasso de Walcott e ao êxito de Whittington constitui um dos melhores relatos de sempre sobre a ciência, a sociedade e nós próprios. Rompendo com a iconografia convencional - que representava a evolução como uma escada do progresso ou um cone de diversidade crescente -, as descobertas efectuadas no Xisto de Burgess vieram mostrar que as extinções têm, afinal, um carácter de lotaria, que a contingência desempenha na história um papel decisivo e que, assim, é bem provável que o ser humano só tenha aparecido por mero acaso.

The Book of Life

The Book of Life
The latest research and paintings prepared especially for this book highlight a new edition of the story of life on earth. "The Book of Life" explains how mammals, after surviving the impact of a massive comet, inherited the earth, and explains chains of animal survival, causes and consequences of adaptation, and more.

Bravo, Brontosaurus

release date: Jan 01, 1994

A feira dos dinossáurios

release date: Jan 01, 1993

Pandas Thumb

release date: Sep 01, 1992
Pandas Thumb
"Gould is a natural writer; he has something to say and the inclination and skill with which to say it." —P. B. Medawar, New York Review of Books With sales of well over one million copies in North America alone, the commercial success of Gould''s books now matches their critical acclaim. The Panda''s Thumb will introduce a new generation of readers to this unique writer, who has taken the art of the scientific essay to new heights. Were dinosaurs really dumber than lizards? Why, after all, are roughly the same number of men and women born into the world? What led the famous Dr. Down to his theory of mongolism, and its racist residue? What do the panda''s magical "thumb" and the sea turtle''s perilous migration tell us about imperfections that prove the evolutionary rule? The wonders and mysteries of evolutionary biology are elegantly explored in these and other essays by the celebrated natural history writer Stephen Jay Gould.

Finders, Keepers

release date: Jan 01, 1992
Finders, Keepers
A noted paleontologist provides the text for this photographic study of eight different collections--from a collection of human artifacts belonging to Peter the Great to Agassy's fish collection--exploring what collections say about collectors.

La vie est belle

release date: Jan 01, 1991
La vie est belle
Il y a plus de 500 millions d'années, d'étranges créatures peuplaient les mers: Opabinia avec ses cinq yeux et sa trompe frontale, Anomalocaris, redoutable prédateur à mâchoire circulaire, Hallucigenia dont l'anatomie justifie amplement le nom. Cette faune, fossilisée dans le Schiste de Burgess, est si extraordinaire qu'il a fallu près d'un siècle pour en reconnaître l'originalité, C'est l'histoire de cette révolution scientifique que nous conte ici Stephen Jay Gould, comme une véritable enquête policière. Elle conduit à une profonde remise en cause de nos conceptions traditionnelles. Il nous faut désormais regarder l'évolution comme un ensemble d'événements à la fois parfaitement logiques et susceptibles d'être rigoureusement expliqués en rétrospective, mais absolument impossibles à prédire et non reproductibles. Le maître mot de l'histoire, celle de la vie comme celle de l'homme, est donc bien celui de contingence. Comme dans le merveilleux film de Frank Capra avec James Stewart, "La vie est belle", par son unicité et son imprévisibilité même.
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