Gould Stephen Jay Libros

Stephen Jay Gould, el más famoso de los científicos naturales de nuestro tiempo, nos ha enseñado a entender la ciencia y a comprender el mundo con agudeza y buen humor. Todos sus libros son piezas esenciales del bagaje cultural que necesitamos. En este libro nos muestra el poder explicativo de la teoría evolutiva a partir de singularidades aparentemente misteriosas e intrigantes: «¿Por qué ningún gran animal se desplaza sobre ruedas? ¿Cómo puede inducirse a las gallinas a que desarrollen dientes, cuando hace más de cincuenta millones de años que no se han formado en ninguna ave? ¿Por qué coincidió la desaparición de los dinosaurios con la extinción de gran parte de los invertebrados marinos? Las cebras, ¿Son blancas con franjas negras, o negras con franjas blancas?»

Contains thirty of the author's essays from monthly columns in Natural History Magazine.

There aren't many scientists famous enough in their lifetime to be canonized by the US Congress as one of America's 'living legends'. It is still more unlikely that the title should have been conferred on a man regarded by many in the US as a notorious ra

This collection of essays from "Natural History" magazine illuminate and elucidate key scientific concepts and their history, ranging from the discovery of the new scourge of syphilis by Fracastoro in the 16th century to Freud's weird speculations about human phylogeny.

Basing his argument around the history of science's treatment of the fossils of the Burgess shale, the author presents a view of evolution as a non-progressive system, which saw a wide range of early designs for life winnowed down to the relatively few basic designs that exist today.

This seventh collection of Stephen Jay Gould's natural history essays covers subjects ranging from fossils to ship worms, starting with a solar eclipse in New York, and finishing with bus stops in Greece.

Essays from the author's column This view of life, published in Natural history.

Lively and fascinating... [Gould] writes beautifully about science and the wonders of nature.-Tracy Kidder

Gould is a natural writer; he has something to say and the inclination and skill with which to say it. -P. B. Medawar, New York Review of Books

"In 1972 Stephen Jay Gould took the scientific world by storm with his paper on punctuated equilibrium, written with Niles Eldredge. Challenging a core assumption of Darwin's theory of evolution, it launched the career of one of the most influential evolutionary biologists of our time - perhaps the best known since Darwin."