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Ever Since Darwin was the paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould's

Stephen Jay Gould

Stephen Jay Gould was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation....

first book of collected essays. Published in 1977, the collection originated from his monthly column "This View of Life," published in Natural History

Natural History (magazine)

Natural History is an American natural history magazine. The stated mission of the magazine is to promote public understanding and appreciation of nature and science.- History :...

magazine. 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

The Mismeasure of Man

The Mismeasure of Man , by Stephen Jay Gould, is a history and critique of the statistical methods and cultural motivations underlying biological determinism, the belief that “the social and economic differences between human groups — primarily races, classes, and sexes — arise from inherited,...

. 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.

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
  1. A Matter of Degree
  2. Bushes and Ladders in Human Evolution
  3. The Child as Man's Real Father
  4. Human Babies as Embryos
3. Odd Organisms and Evolutionary Exemplars
  1. The Misnamed, Mistreated and Misunderstood Irish Elk
  2. Organic Wisdom, or Why Should a Fly Eat Its Mother from Inside
  3. Of Bamboos, Cicadas and the Economy of Adam Smith
  4. 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
  1. The Pentagon of Life
  2. An Unsung Single-Celled Hero
  3. Is the Cambrian Explosion a Sigmoid Fraud?
  4. The Great Dying
5. Theories of the Earth
  1. The Reverend Thomas' Dirty Little Planet
  2. Uniformity and Catastrophe
  3. Velikovsky in Collision
  4. The Validation of Continental Drift
6. Size and Shape, from Churches to Brains to Planets
  1. Size and Shape
  2. Sizing Up Human Intelligence
  3. History of the Vertebrate Brain
  4. Planetary Sizes and Surfaces
7. Science in Society - A Historical View
  1. On Heroes and Fools in Science
  2. Posture Maketh the Man
  3. Racism and Recapitulation
  4. The Criminal as Nature's Mistake, or the Ape in Some of Us
8. The Science and Politics of Human Nature
  1. Why We Should Not Name Human Races - A Biological View
  2. The Nonscience of Human Nature
  3. Racist Arguments and IQ
  4. Biological Potentiality vs. Biological Determinism
  5. So Cleverly Kind an Animal
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index

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