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Carrie Buck's daughter: a popular, quasi-scientific idea can be a powerful tool for injustice
The Lord really put it on the line in his preface to that prototype of all prescription, the Ten Commandments: The Lord really put it on the line...
Natural History, 07/01/02 by Stephen Jay Gould · More from publication -
Homenaje a Jay Gould, biólogo
EL INICIO DEL TERCER MILENIO PUEDE UFANARSE DE TENER UN extenso pedigrà como sÃmbolo de nuevos comienzos. En una obra escrita en 1884, el...
Letras Libres, 06/01/02 by Stephen Jay Gould · More from publication -
Baseball's reliquary: the oddly possible hybrid of shrine and university
Baseball did not win its central place in America's heart and culture because the sport, in a silliness of common parlance, "imitates life" or...
Natural History, 03/01/02 by Stephen Jay Gould · More from publication -
Ground Zero
Two September Days--100 Years Apart Two September Days--100 Years Apart To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the...
Antioch Review, The, 01/01/02 by Stephen Jay Gould · More from publication -
Endnote on a New Beginning
Dr. Johnson, invoking the sexism of the ages to disparage an incipient form of eighteenth-century feminism, compared a woman preacher to a dog...
Natural History, 12/01/00 by Stephen Jay Gould · More from publication -
I Have Landed
In the final essay of this twenty-seven-year series, the author reflects on continuity--from family history to the branching lineage of terrestrial...
Natural History, 12/01/00 by Stephen Jay Gould · More from publication -
Tales of a Feathered Tail
Soon after birds branched off from dinosaurs and gained the power of flight, some may have branched off again as land-bound runners. Why do some...
Natural History, 11/01/00 by Stephen Jay Gould · More from publication -
Syphilis and the Shepherd of Atlantis
The most "poetic" statement about the dreaded plague is not an early physician's hexameter but the modern map of the pathogen's genome. The most...
Natural History, 10/01/00 by Stephen Jay Gould · More from publication -
A Taxonomist's Taxonomist
We taxonomists and natural historians are said to be the fuddy-duddies and accountants of science--maintainers of the lists and guardians of the...
Whole Earth, 09/22/00 by Stephen Jay Gould · More from publication -
Linnaeus's Luck?
Why does the great creationist's system of classification work in Darwin's world? And what does the resolution of this paradox teach us about the...
Natural History, 09/01/00 by Stephen Jay Gould · More from publication
