Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
Author	Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher	W. W. Norton & Company Incorporated
Publication date	1977
Media type	Hardcover
Pages	285
ISBN	ISBN 0393064255

Ever Since Darwin was American paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould's first book. Stephen Jay Gould (September 10 1941 &ndash May 20 2002 was a prominent American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of Literature or Information &ndash the activity of making information available for public view W W Norton & Company is an American book publishing company that has remained independent since its founding The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Palaeontology redirects here For the Scientific journal, see Palaeontology (journal. Stephen Jay Gould (September 10 1941 &ndash May 20 2002 was a prominent American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science Published in 1977, it was a collection of essays originally published for Gould's monthly column in Natural History magazine. Also 1977 (album by Ash. Year 1977 ( MCMLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays Natural History is a Magazine on Science and Nature aimed at the general public which is published by the Edwin Barber—who was then the editorial director for W. W. Norton & Company—took note of the quality of Gould's essays and asked Gould "What's a smart fellow like you doing with no books in print?" He soon commissioned Gould to write The Mismeasure of Man. W W Norton & Company is an American book publishing company that has remained independent since its founding The Mismeasure of Man is a controversial 1981 book written by the Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002 It wasn't until three years later, when Gould accumulated 33 columns, did it occur to either of them that the columns should be published in a single volume. The collection of essays, written between 1973-1977, became a best-seller and propelled Stephen Jay Gould to national prominence. Year 1973 ( MCMLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. Also 1977 (album by Ash. Year 1977 ( MCMLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays

Contents 1 Contents 2 Blurbs 3 Reviews 4 External links

Contents

• Prologue
  1. Darwinia
     1. Darwin's delay
     2. Darwin's Sea Change, or Five Years at the Captain's Table
     3. Darwin's Dilemma: The Odyssey of Evolution
     4. Darwin's Untimely Burial
  2. Human Evolution
     5. A Matter of Degree
     6. Bushes and Ladders in Human Evolution
     7. The Child as Man's Real Father
     8. Human Babies as Embryos
  3. Odd Organisms and Evolutionary Exemplars
     9. The Misnamed, Mistreated and Misunderstood Irish Elk
     10. Organic Wisdom, or Why Should a Fly Eat Its Mother from Inside
     11. Of Bamboos, Cicadas and the Economy of Adam Smith
     12. The Problem of Perfection, or How can a Clam Mount a Fish on Its Rear End?
  4. Patterns and Punctuations in the History of Life
     13. The Pentagon of Life
     14. An Unsung Single-Celled Hero
     15. Is the Cambrian Explosion a Sigmoid Fraud?
     16. The Great Dying
  5. Theories of the Earth
     17. The Reverend Thomas' Dirty Little Planet
     18. Uniformity and Catastrophe
     19. Velikovsky in Collision
     20. The Validation of Continental Drift
  6. Size and Shape, from Churches to Brains to Planets
     21. Size and Shape
     22. Sizing Up Human Intelligence
     23. History of the Vertebrate Brain
     24. Planetary Sizes and Surfaces
  7. Science in Society - A Historical View
     25. On Heroes and Fools in Science
     26. Posture Maketh the Man
     27. Racism and Recapitulation
     28. The Criminal as Nature's Mistake, or the Ape in Some of Us
  8. The Science and Politics of Human Nature
     29. Why We Should Not Name Human Races - A Biological View
     30. The Nonscience of Human Nature
     31. Racist Arguments and IQ
     32. Biological Potentiality vs. Biological Determinism
     33. So Cleverly Kind an Animal
• Epilogue
• Bibliography
• Index

Blurbs

“	In lively prose, the author explains such difficult biological concepts as r- and K-selection, allometric growth, the role of ontogeny in phylogeny, biological clocks, plate tectonics and biogeography, the cropping principle, the symbiotic origin of eucaryotic cells, and many more in easily understood and almost anecdotal style. His opinions on Whiggish history of science, sociobiology, race, and I. Q. have a decidedly personal and provocative perspective. Gould also shares with us his own research on the Irish elk and human evolution. The volume under review is a superb selection for undergraduate as well as public libraries.	„
—Choice 15 (May 1978): 424

“	Throughout the essays Gould's logical and scientific analysis is nicely laced with humor and a warm humanism that makes them a pleasure to read, but the book is not light reading; it is for the serious student and for the informed general reader prepared to make the effort to follow Gould's arguments.	„
—J. B. Hamlin, Library Journal, 102 (Oct. 1 1977): 2072.

“	[Gould] not only explains scientific theory, but comments on science itself with clarity and wit, simultaneously entertaining and teaching. His examples are delights. [The work] is the best sort of popularization. Gould never mystifies science: he shows both its power and its weaknesses. In one of his essays, Gould asks how nonscientists are to judge the rival claims of experts. There seems to be no clear answer, but it does help immeasurably to know how science works. How to penetrate science? Start with Stephen Jay Gould. ''	„
—James Gorman, New York Times Book Review, 20 November 1977, p. 7.

Reviews

• The History of a Theory - by James Gorman, The New York Times

External links

• W.W.Norton Promotional page

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