21. CancerGuide: Stephen Jay Gould's "The Median Isn't The Message" The text of an essay by gould on the subject of cancer and statistics, based on his affliction withand Category Science Earth Sciences Invertebrate gould, S.J.......stephen jay gould was an influential evolutionary biologist who taught atHarvard University. The Median Isn't the Message by stephen jay gould. http://www.cancerguide.org/median_not_msg.html

Prefatory Note by Steve Dunn Stephen Jay Gould was an influential evolutionary biologist who taught at Harvard University. He was the author of at least ten popular books on evolution, and science, including, among others, The Flamingo's Smile The Mismeasure of Man Wonderful Life , and Full House As far as I'm concerned, Gould's The Median Isn't the Message is the wisest, most humane thing ever written about cancer and statistics. It is the antidote both to those who say that, "the statistics don't matter," and to those who have the unfortunate habit of pronouncing death sentences on patients who face a difficult prognosis. Anyone who researches the medical literature will confront the statistics for their disease. Anyone who reads this will be armed with reason and with hope. The Median Isn't the Message is reproduced here by permission of the author. The Median Isn't the Message by Stephen Jay Gould My life has recently intersected, in a most personal way, two of Mark Twain's famous quips. One I shall defer to the end of this essay. The other (sometimes attributed to Disraeli), identifies three species of mendacity, each worse than the one before - lies, damned lies, and statistics. Consider the standard example of stretching the truth with numbers - a case quite relevant to my story. Statistics recognizes different measures of an "average," or central tendency. The

22. Critial Thought And Religious Liberty - Quotes Includes pages with quotes from America's founding fathers, Albert Einstein, Adolph Hitler, and stephen jay gould. http://www.freethought-web.org/ctrl/quotations.html

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23. Velikovsky In Collision Critical essay by stephen jay gould, as published in Ever since Darwin (1977) http://www.freethought-web.org/ctrl/gould_velikovsky.html

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24. The Earth Around Us: Maintaining A Livable Planet, An Anthology Edited By Jill S Describes an anthology of essays edited by Jill S. Schneiderman of Vassar College. Essayists are mostly geologists, and include stephen jay gould, John McPhee, Orrin H. Pilkey and others. http://vassun.vassar.edu/~schneide/Earth.html

25. Consilience By E. 0. Wilson Reviewed by Niles Eldredge and stephen jay gould. http://www.freethought-web.org/ctrl/archive/stephen_jay_gould/civilization_eowil

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26. The Chronicle: 3/15/2002: Only Stephen Jay Gould Would Dare To Rewrite Darwin. B Throughout much of his career at Harvard University, stephen jay gould has protected the walls of his office, in the http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i27/27a01401.htm

Front Page Today's News Information Technology Teaching ... Help From the issue dated March 15, 2002 Revising the Book of Life Only Stephen Jay Gould would dare to rewrite Darwin. But will America's best-known scientist leave much of an imprint? By RICHARD MONASTERSKY Cambridge, Mass. It's the baby-blue walls, peeling after so many decades, that he particularly cherishes. ALSO SEE: Stephen Jay Gould: a Punctuated Life Gould Between the Lines Throughout much of his career at Harvard University, Stephen Jay Gould has protected the walls of his office, in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, from those who would cover up the aged paint and the large black words stenciled around the room. The patch of plaster overlooking one of his desks proclaims "Vermes," Latin for "worms." The titles "Mammals" and "Fish" adorn another section. Mr. Gould works beneath the remnants of a 19th-century zoological exhibit, dating to the time when this wing of the building was open to the public. In fact, much of the office seems locked in the Victorian era. Two antique typewriters sit on display, reminding visitors that Mr. Gould does not use a computer. Tall bookcases and fossil drawers line the walls and also the interior of the room, creating a warren of corridors that muffles sounds and casts shadows across the floor. As one former student says, "The office is steeped in history." Now, Mr. Gould is trying to write himself into the illustrious annals of scientific history. This month, Harvard University Press is publishing his 1,464-page magnum opus

27. Homo Deceptus - Never Trust Stephen Jay Gould. By Robert Wright An article in Slate. http://slate.msn.com/Earthling/96-11-27/Earthling.asp

MSN Home My MSN Hotmail Search ... Money document.write('') Search the Web: powered by MSN Search Print E-mail Discuss Alerts ... About Us Search Slate Advanced Search the earthling Science, evolution, and politics explained. Homo Deceptus Never trust Stephen Jay Gould. By Robert Wright Posted Thursday, November 28, 1996, at 12:30 AM PT At the risk of sounding grandiose, I hereby declare myself to be involved in a bitter feud with no less a personage than Stephen Jay Gould. It all started in 1990, when I reviewed his book Wonderful Life for the New Republic . I argued, basically, that Gould is a fraud. He has convinced the public that he is not merely a great writer, but a great theorist of evolution. Yet, among top-flight evolutionary biologists, Gould is considered a pestnot just a lightweight, but an actively muddled man who has warped the public's understanding of Darwinism. Gould, alas, paid me no mind. No testy letter to the New Republic , nothing. I heard through the grapevine that he was riled. But, savvy alpha male that he is, he refrained from getting into a gutter brawl with a scrawny, marginal primate such as myself. Then, last month, my big moment finally arrived. Gould's long-repressed contempt burst forth from the reptilian core of his brain and leapt over the fire walls in his frontal lobes. In an essay in Natural History magazine, while dismissing evolutionary psychology as "pop science," he called my book

28. The New York Review Of Books: Darwinian Fundamentalism An article by stephen jay gould from The New York Review of Books, June 12, 1997.The New York Review of Books Darwinian Fundamentalism. By stephen jay gould. 1. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1151

@import "/css/default-b.css"; Home Your account Current issue Archives ... NYR Books The New York Review of Books June 12, 1997 Feature Darwinian Fundamentalism By Stephen Jay Gould The Origin of Species In this light, especially given history's tendency to recycle great issues, I am amused by an irony that has recently ensnared evolutionary theory. A movement of strict constructionism, a self-styled form of Darwinian fundamentalism, has risen to some prominence in a variety of fields, from the English biological heartland of John Maynard Smith to the uncompromising ideology (albeit in graceful prose) of his compatriot Richard Dawkins, to the equally narrow and more ponderous writing of the American philosopher Daniel Dennett (who entitled his latest book Darwin's Dangerous Idea Moreover, a larger group of strict constructionists are now engaged in an almost mordantly self-conscious effort to "revolutionize" the study of human behavior along a Darwinian straight and narrow under the name of "evolutionary psychology." Some of these ideas have filtered into the general press, but the uniting theme of Darwinian fundamentalism has not been adequately stressed or identified. Professionals, on the other hand, are well aware of the connections. My colleague Niles Eldredge, for example, speaks of this coordinated movement as Ultra-Darwinism in his recent book

29. BioMedNet News And Comment stephen jay gould and Kipchoge Keino on why athletic achievement isn't in the genes. http://news.bmn.com/news/story?day=010410&story=3

30. Ontogeny And Phylogeny (Stephen Jay Gould) Ontogeny and Phylogeny. stephen jay gould. Harvard University Press 1977 T Ontogenyand Phylogeny %A gould, stephen jay %I Harvard University Press %C Cambridge http://dannyreviews.com/h/Ontogeny_and_Phylogeny.html

Danny Yee's Book Reviews Subjects Titles Authors ... Latest Ontogeny and Phylogeny Stephen Jay Gould Harvard University Press 1977 A book review by Danny Yee Stephen Jay Gould is best known for his collections of essays. Ontogeny and Phylogeny is a rather different kind of book (it has more in common with Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle than the essays), but it still has the characteristic Gould feel to it. Many will disagree, but I feel that it is in fact the best of all Gould's books. It will certainly be compulsive reading for anyone interested in development or evolution - which is pretty much anyone interested in biology. The idea that the development of individuals is a progression through adult ancestral forms, epitomised in the saying "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny", has played an important part in the history of biology. Since the rejection of recapitulationist ideas in the early part of this century, however, the study of links between development and evolution has been relatively neglected. Ontogeny and Phylogeny is divided into two roughly equal sections. The first is an outline of the history of the idea of recapitulation and the second presents the author's own ideas on the relationship between evolution and development.

31. Stephen Jay Gould stephen jay gould America's premier science writer talks about the battles overevolution, the importance of dinosaur lunch boxes, and why no one's likely to http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/JF97/outspoken.html

January/ February 1997 Subscribe Search Hot!media: See Hot!media for more resources. Stephen Jay Gould America's premier science writer talks about the battles over evolution, the importance of dinosaur lunch boxes, and why no one's likely to top Ty Cobb's batting average. by Michael Krasny W ith more than 15 books in print, including Wonderful Life and The Mismeasure of Man , Stephen Jay Gould has been called the dean of popular science writers. A professor of geology and zoology at Harvard University, Gould is best known for his writings on dinosaurs and his talent for explaining evolutionary science in lay terms. In his latest book, Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin , Gould, in typical contrarian fashion, argues that our assumptions about trends and evolutionary progress are wrong using eclectic examples, like the disappearance of .400 hitting in baseball, as proof. In an interview with Mother Jones , Gould talks about the limits of Darwinian theory, and reminds us that we do not live in the "age of man," but, instead, in the "age of bacteria." Q: How do you respond to criticisms that you are a "popularizer" and not a serious scientist?

32. Inventing Allies In The Sky Kenan Malik reviews 'Rocks of Ages science and religion in the fullness of life' by stephen jay gould. http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/200102190041.htm

33. Stephen Jay Gould (cont'd) The MoJo Wire. stephen jay gould (cont'd). Q Of all your work, whathas stirred up the most controversy? A The material on evolutionary http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/JF97/outspoken_jump.html

Stephen Jay Gould (cont'd) Q: Of all your work, what has stirred up the most controversy? A: The material on evolutionary theory, because you have a very committed group of strict Darwinian thinkers among technical scientific audiences. And although Darwin's my hero and his theory is a good one, a lot of the work I've done is meant to question strictly Darwinian notions. Darwin's principle of natural selection leads to the prediction that the proper way to analyze any evolutionary trend or evolutionary development is to see the new features as adaptive to environments. And that's a perfectly good principle. The problem is that there are many evolutionary biologists who view everything that happens in evolution every feature, every behavior as directly evolved for adaptive benefit. And that just doesn't work. Whenever you build a structure for adaptive reasons, the structure is going to exhibit properties that have nothing to do with adaptation. They're just side consequences. Q: Could you give an example?

34. Reporter: Stephen Jay Gould A short article written on the occasion of a visit and lecture by stephen jay gould at McGill University, from the McGill Reporter. http://ww2.mcgill.ca/uro/Rep/r3105/gould.html

Stephen Jay Gould (right) after a recent McGill lecture PHOTO: OWEN EGAN The beauty of unpredictability SYLVAIN COMEAU The Harvard University paleontologist and evolutionary biologist spoke eloquently to a packed house in Leacock 132 last Wednesday on "Why we can't predict the future: A Millennial Perspective." Gould noted that there is a long tradition of scientists who liked to claim that they could tell the future, given enough information. While science has largely put aside such claims, many people mistakenly view that as a failing. "We understand that scientific fields do not lend themselves to predictability, and we see them as the worse for it. We see the inability to predict as our limit. When we fail to accurately predict, that is not our limitation, that is just nature's reality. The reason we can't make predictions is the enormous complexity of nature, and the randomness thrown in, when you try to explain a unique and particular series of events." Gould said that the desire to predict stems from the human need to find meaning in chance events. "We have to extract meaning out of the confusion of the world around us. We do it by telling stories, and by looking for patterns. And whenever we see a pattern, we have to tell a story about it" This leads us to think that we can predict, when so much of the 'patterning' we see is really just a clumping of results within a random system."

35. An Urchin In A Haystack stephen jay gould. An Urchin In A Haystack. How does one briefly summarize thelife of an intellectual like stephen jay gould in a short introduction? http://www.skeptic.com/04.1.sherm-gould-iv.html

From Skeptic vol. 4, no. 1, 1996, pp. 86-90. A special Internet introductory subscription rate to Skeptic is available. For more information, contact Jim Lippard (lippard@skeptic.com). Stephen Jay Gould An Urchin In A Haystack An Interview by Michael Shermer How does one briefly summarize the life of an intellectual like Stephen Jay Gould in a short introduction? He has been praised to the hilt by skeptics and humanists for his tireless efforts in battling the creationists, admired by writers and reviewers for his brilliant literary style, and read by virtually everyone with any interest in science, from layman to professional. After an A.B. from Antioch College and a Ph.D. from Columbia, Gould began teaching at Harvard at the young age of 26, and immediately set to work to reform his profession. In 1972, he and Niles Eldredge published their theory of punctuated equilibrium, a new interpretation of the fossil record, and Gould won the prestigious Schuchert Award for excellence in paleontological research by a scientist under age 40. Like his baseball hero, Joe DiMaggio, whose 56-game hitting streak is considered one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of sports, Gould began a streak of his own of monthly essays in Natural History magazine. At the time of this writing it is up to 256, and he intends to continue it to the end of the millennium. For his literary achievements Gould has won countless awards, including a National Magazine Award for his essays, a National Book Award for

36. NONZERO THE ACCIDENTAL CREATIONIST. Why stephen jay gould is bad for evolution.BY ROBERT WRIGHT. FOUR months ago, when the Kansas Board of http://www.nonzero.org/newyorker.htm

NONZERO THE LOGIC OF HUMAN DESTINY By ROBERT WRIGHT Home Thumbnail Summary Introduction Table of Contents and Excerpts Excerpts from Reviews About the Author Buy the Book Introduction PART I: A BRIEF HISTORY OF HUMANKIND The Ladder of Cultural Evolution The Way We Were Add Technology and Bake for Five Millennia The Invisible Brain ... Degrees of Freedom PART II: A BRIEF HISTORY OF ORGANIC LIFE The Cosmic Context The Rise of Biological Non-zero-sumness Why Life Is So Complex The Last Adaptation PART III: FROM HERE TO ETERNITY Non-crazy Questions You Call This a God? Appendix I: On Non-zero-sumness Appendix II: What Is Social Complexity? This essay originally appeared in The New Yorker , Dec. 13, 1999. It is adapted from chapters 19 and 20 of Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny New Yorker essaythat biological evolution is directional, and Stephen Jay Gould's argument to the contrary is deeply flawedis made in much greater detail in chapter 19 of the book.)

37. The Chronicle: 3/15/2002: Only Stephen Jay Gould Would Dare To Rewrite Darwin. B Revising the Book of Life. Only stephen jay gould would dare to rewrite Darwin. ALSOSEE stephen jay gould a Punctuated Life gould Between the Lines. http://chronicle.merit.edu/free/v48/i27/27a01401.htm

Front Page Today's News Information Technology Teaching ... Help From the issue dated March 15, 2002 Revising the Book of Life Only Stephen Jay Gould would dare to rewrite Darwin. But will America's best-known scientist leave much of an imprint? By RICHARD MONASTERSKY Cambridge, Mass. It's the baby-blue walls, peeling after so many decades, that he particularly cherishes. ALSO SEE: Stephen Jay Gould: a Punctuated Life Gould Between the Lines Throughout much of his career at Harvard University, Stephen Jay Gould has protected the walls of his office, in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, from those who would cover up the aged paint and the large black words stenciled around the room. The patch of plaster overlooking one of his desks proclaims "Vermes," Latin for "worms." The titles "Mammals" and "Fish" adorn another section. Mr. Gould works beneath the remnants of a 19th-century zoological exhibit, dating to the time when this wing of the building was open to the public. In fact, much of the office seems locked in the Victorian era. Two antique typewriters sit on display, reminding visitors that Mr. Gould does not use a computer. Tall bookcases and fossil drawers line the walls and also the interior of the room, creating a warren of corridors that muffles sounds and casts shadows across the floor. As one former student says, "The office is steeped in history." Now, Mr. Gould is trying to write himself into the illustrious annals of scientific history. This month, Harvard University Press is publishing his 1,464-page magnum opus

38. Gould, Stephen Jay. Leonardo's Mountain Of Clams And The Diet Of Worms. gould, stephen jay. Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of WormsEssays on Natural History. Oct. 1998. 432p. index. illus. http://www.ala.org/booklist/v94/adult/je1/01gould.html

Booklist Adult v.94 Hot List: Fiction Nonfiction Adult Fiction General Fiction Mystery Science Fiction Adult Nonfiction General Works Psychology Religion Social Sciences ... Booklist Home Page How to subscribe to Booklist Magazine Gould, Stephen Jay. Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History. Oct. 1998. 432p. index. illus. Crown/Harmony, $25 (0-609-60141-5). DDC: 508. Eclectic as these essays on paleontology and evolution are, they share their author's driving curiosity about biological details and their attendant evils. Further, each piece is cemented by Gould's eagerness to understand the explanations earlier natural historians ventured; the tendency common among contemporary scientists is to dismiss the original writings of earlier, especially pre-Darwinian, fossil hounds as unworthy of serious attention. Gould revels in exploring the intellectual framework of such predecessors, refusing to ignore them as benighted stumblebums of science and recognizing that they were guided in their own ways to bring order out of vast biological detail. Details and people, the I beams supporting each of the essays, enable Gould to introduce forgotten figures to readers primed by his earlier collections (most recently, Dinosaur in a Haystack , 1996). Who ever heard of Shirley Hibberd, Vladimir Kovalesky, James Dwight Dana? Hibberd popularized the aquarium, crucial to observing sea life in its own environment; Kovalesky was the first taxonomist of extinct equines; and Dana was a prominent opponent of Darwin. Dana's wrong but sincerely held positions get Gould's fair hearing, as do Leonardo's exploratory writings on how sea fossils got atop mountains. Never knowing which direction a Gould essay will head, his readers will anticipate a discovery and definitely an oddity or two on every page and will see, for example, connections to noted nonbiologists Luther and Columbus. Another mine of unexpected enlightenment and entertainment from Gould.

39. Booklist: Gould, Stephen Jay. I Have Landed. gould, stephen jay. I Have Landed The End of a Beginning in Natural History.May 2002. 384p. illus. index. Harmony, $25.95 (0609-60143-1). 508. http://www.ala.org/booklist/v98/mr1/01gould.html

Booklist Adult v.98 Hot List: Fiction Nonfiction Adult Fiction General Fiction Christian Fiction Mystery Romance ... Science Fiction Adult Nonfiction General Works Psychology Religion Social Sciences ... ALA Home Page How to subscribe to Booklist Magazine Gould, Stephen Jay. I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History. May 2002. 384p. illus. index. Harmony, $25.95 (0-609-60143-1). 508. Gould, a self-described “naturalist by profession and a humanist at heart,” has written some of the most edifying and masterful essays of our times. Valuing literary finesse and moral clarity as much as scientific and historical precision, and combining wit with an enduring sense of mission, Gould has written 300 sequential essays for Natural History magazine and parlayed them into 10 exemplary collections over the course of 25 demanding years. In this particularly compelling, far-ranging, and profoundly moving volume, Gould expresses his ongoing wonder over “the continuity of etz chayim , the tree of earthly life” and parses “the unity of creativity” that connects science and art. He develops the first theme on many fronts as he continues his noble effort to educate the public on the finer points of evolution, discussing birds and dinosaurs, so-called native plants, and the startling discovery of lateral gene transfer among bacterial species. Gould explores the nexus of art and science in enlightening discussions of Nabokov’s “passion for accuracy” in both his literary and lepidopterogical endeavors, and the influence of the great scientist Alexander von Humboldt on the superb landscape painter Frederic Church. Because this volume is the last in this extraordinary series, Gould intended to make it his most personal by celebrating the centenary of his family’s arrival in the U.S. To that end, he describes his most treasured book, an 1892 edition of

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