Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
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Sociobiology (Wilson), 251–52, 262
Spanish–American War, 218
Speck, Richard, 228
Spencer, Herbert, 36–37, 40, 217
Spindle diagrams, 131–33
Stanley, Steven M., 123, 125, 130
Starck, D., 51
Strauss, Johann, 242
Strauss, Richard, 242
Stravinsky, Igor, 135
Stromatolites, 124–25
Strong, Rev. Josiah, 218–19
Systema Naturae (Linnaeus), 251
Systematics and the Origin of Species (Mayr), 232–33
Taxonomy:
human races and, 231–36
rules of, 231, 232
Territorial Imperative, (Ardrey), 239–40
Tertiary mammals, 189–90
Tetonius homunculus, 190
Thing, The, 113
Tiger, Lionel, 238, 240
Torquemada, Tomas de, 154
Trivers, R. L., 265
Trueman, A., 159
2001, 242
Tyndall, John, 157
Tyne, 31
Tyrannosaurus, 190
Ulrich, H., 93
University of Edinburgh, 26, 81
University of Pennsylvania, 97–98
Uomo delinquente, L’ (Lombroso), 224, 228
Uses of Enchantment (Bettelheim), 97
Velikovsky, Immanuel, 15, 143, 145
theory of earth, 153–59
Vogt, Carl, 217
Voltaire, 79
Waddington, C. H., 43
Wagner, Richard, 175
Wallace, Alfred Russell, 21, 25, 50
Water Babies (Kingsley), 50
Wegener, Alfred, 168
Weissman, August, 268, 269
Welsh, J. H., 109
Went, F. W., 180
Whittaker, R. H., 114–15
Wickler, Wolfgang, 269
Wilberforce, Bishop S., 33, 142
William III, King, 145
William Tell (Rossini), 21
Willis, Bailey, 164, 165, 166
Wilson, A. C., 53, 54
Wilson, E. O., 43, 251–52, 253, 254, 255, 259, 262, 266
Wordsworth, William, 63
Worlds in Collision (Velikovsky), 153–54, 155, 159
X chromosome, 228
Y chromosome, 228
Yale University, 86
Yerkes, Robert M, 244
Yerkes Laboratory, 52
Young, J. Z., 58
Zarathustra (Strauss), 242
Zooplankton, 124
Chapter 1
1 | “The Bear” refers to the constellation of Ursa major (the Great Bear), better known to us by its tail and hindquarters—the big dipper. “Thrice great Hermes” is Hermes Trismegistus (a Greek name for Thoth, Egyptian god of wisdom). The “hermetic books,” supposedly authored by Thoth, are a collection of metaphysical and magical works that exerted great influence in seventeenth century England. They were equated by some with the Old Testament as a parallel source of pre-Christian wisdom. They waned in importance when exposed as a product of Alexandrian Greece, but survive in various doctrines of the Rosicrucians, and in our phrase “hermetic seal.”
Chapter 6
2 | I wrote this essay in January, 1976. True to the admonition of my last paragraph, Mary Leakey’s attribution of the Laetolil jaws to the genus Homo has been challenged by several colleagues. They assert no alternate hypothesis, but merely argue that jaws alone offer too little for a certain diagnosis. In any case, the primary assertion of this article remains valid—from our knowledge of African fossils, the genus Homo may be as old as the australopithecines. Moreover, we still have no firm evidence for any progressive change within any hominid species.
Chapter 8
3 | I depart from my introductory promise to excise all topical references to the original source of these essays—my monthly column in Natural History Magazine. For where else will I ever have the opportunity to pay tribute to the man who ranks second only to my father for sheer volume of attention during my youth; he and the Yankees brought me so much pleasure (I even own a ball that DiMaggio fouled off one day).
4 | A friend has since pointed out that Alberich, a rather small man himself, would only wield the whip with a fraction of the force we could exert—so things might not have been quite so bad for his underlings.
Chapter 31
5 | I wrote this essay in 1974. Since then, the case against Sir Cyril has progressed from an inference of carelessness to a spectacular (and well-founded) suspicion of fraud. Reporters for the London Times have discovered, for example, that Sir Cyril’s coauthors (for the infamous twin studies) apparently did not exist outside his imagination. In the light of Kamin’s discoveries, one must suspect that the data have an equal claim to reality.
OTHER TITLES BY STEPHEN JAY GOULD PUBLISHED
BY W. W. NORTON & COMPANY
The Panda’s Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
Hen’s Teeth and Horse’s Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History
The Flamingo’s Smile: Reflections in Natural History
Finders, Keepers: Eight Collectors (with R. W. Purcell)
An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History
Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History
The Mismeasure of Man
The Book of Life (editor)
Illuminations (with R. W. Purcell)
Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville: My Lifelong Passion for Baseball
OTHER TITLES BY STEPHEN JAY GOULD
Ontogeny and Phylogeny
Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of
Geological Time
Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History
Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin
Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist’s Guide to a Precisely
Arbitrary Countdown
Leonardo’s Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms:
Essays on Natural History
Rock of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life
The Lying Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections
in Natural History
Crossing Over: Where Art and Science Meet (with R. W. Purcell)
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Evolutionary History
Copyright © 1977 by Stephen Jay Gould
Copyright © 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977 by
the American Museum of Natural History
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First published as a Norton paperback 1979; reissued 2007
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