I Have Landed is the 10th and final volume of collected essay

Essay

An essay is a piece of writing which is often written from an author's personal point of view. Essays can consist of a number of elements, including: literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author. The definition...

s by the Harvard

Harvard University

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 paleontologist

Paleontology

Paleontology "old, ancient", ὄν, ὀντ- "being, creature", and λόγος "speech, thought") is the study of prehistoric life. It includes the study of fossils to determine organisms' evolution and interactions with each other and their environments...

 Stephen Jay Gould

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....

. The essays were culled from his monthly column "This View of Life" 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, to which Gould contributed for 27 years. The book deals, in typically discursive fashion, with themes familiar to Gould's writing: evolution and its teaching, science biography, probabilities and common sense.

The series of consecutive essays began in 1974, ending in January 2001 with the title essay "I have landed." The title refers to the very first words his grandfather Papa Joe wrote as he arrived on Ellis Island

Ellis Island

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, New York

New York

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 as a newly arrived Hungarian

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

 immigrant, September 11, 1901.

Contents

• Preface
  
  1. Pausing in Continuity
     
     1. I Have Landed
     
     
  2. Disciplinary Connections: Scientific Slouching Across a Misconceived Divide
     
     2. No Science Without Fancy, No Art Without Facts: The Lepidoptery of Vladimir Nabokov
        
     3. Jim Bowie's Letter and Bill Buckner's Legs
        
     4. The True Embodiment of Everything That's Excellent
        
     5. Art Meets Science in The Heart of the Andes: Church Paints, Humboldt Dies, Darwin Writes, and Nature Blinks in the Fateful Year of 1859
     
     
  3. Darwinian Prequels and Fallout
     
     6. The Darwinian Gentleman at Marx's Funeral: Resolving Evolution's Oldest Coupling
        
     7. The Pre-Adamite in a Nutshell
        
     8. Freud's Evolutionary Fantasy
     
     
  4. Essays in the Paleontology of Ideas
     
     9. The Jew and the Jewstone
     10. 
         
     11. When Fossils Were Young
         
     12. Syphilis and the Shepherd of Atlantis
     
     
  5. Casting the die: Six Evolutionary Epitomes
     
     Defending Evolution
     
     12. Darwin and the Munchkins of Kansas
         
     13. Darwin's More Stately Mansion
         
     14. A Darwin for All Reasons
         
     
     Evolution and Human Nature
     
     15. When Less Is Truly More
         
     16. Darwin's Cultural Degree
         
     17. The Without and Within of Smart Mice
     
     
  6. The Meaning of Drawing of Evolution
     
     Defining and Beginning
     
     18. What Does the Dreaded "E" Word Mean Anyway?
         
     19. The First Day of the Rest of Our Life
         
     20. The Narthex of San Marco and the Pangenetic Paradigm
         
     21. Linnaeus's Luck?
         
     22. Abscheulich! (Atrocious)
         
     23. Tales of a Feathered Tail
     
     
  7. Natural Worth
     
     24. An Evolutionary Perspective on the Concept of Native Plants
         
     25. Age-Old fallacies of Thinking and Stinking
         
     26. The Geometer of Race
         
     27. The Great Physiologist of Heidelberg
     
     
  8. Triumph and Tragedy on the Exact Centennial of I Have Landed, September 11, 2001
     Introductory Statement
     
     28. The Good People of Halifax
         
     29. Apple Brown Betty
         Apple Brown Betty
         A Brown Betty is a simple American dessert made from fruit and sweetened crumbs that is thought to date back to Colonial times....
         
         
         
     30. The Woolworth Building
         
     31. September 11, '01

Bibliography

Index

Reviews

• A Grand Finale - by Robin McKie, The Observer
  The Observer
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• Review of I Have Landed
• Book review - by Jim Walker

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