… Stephen Jay Gould's work always generates keen interest and the present volume perhaps
more so given his recent death. It is a thoughtful and technical book--a statement of position …

… STEPHEN JAY GOULD, one of our most brilliant scientists, … Named a "Living Legend" by
Congress in 2000, Gould was a … Beyond his scientific genius, Gould possessed a rare gift for …

… arguments are here so effectively anticipated and thoroughly undermined by Stephen Jay
Gould. In this edition Dr. Gould has written a substantial new introduction telling how and why …

… Stephen Jay Gould In the first major book on the subject in fifty years, Stephen Jay Gould …
Gould demonstrates that neoteny, the oppo site of recapitulation, is the most important …

The intense controversies that surrounded the youth of punctuated equilibrium have helped
it mature to a useful extension of evolutionary theory. As a complement to phyletic …

Exosomes are small, single-membrane, secreted organelles of ∼30 to ∼200 nm in diameter
that have the same topology as the cell and are enriched in selected proteins, lipids, …

Evolutionary theory lacks a term for a crucial concept—a feature, now useful to an organism,
that did not arise as an adaptation for its present role, but was subsequently coopted for its …

" 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 …

HUMAN SAGAS AND PRIMAL TALES OFTEN DEPICT OUR DEEPEST EMOTIONS and
most practical needs as polar opposites that either dwell in tension within us or vie for …

We believe that punctuational change dominates the history of life: evolution is concentrated
in very rapid events of speciation (geologically instantaneous, even if tolerably continuous …