The Richness of Life: A Stephen Jay Gould Reader Book

List of Figures     ix
Foreword   Oliver Sacks     xi
Introduction     1
Autobiography     11
I Have Landed     15
The Median Isn't the Message     26
The Streak of Streaks     32
Seventh Inning Stretch: Baseball, Father, and Me     41
Trouble in Our Own House: A Brief Legal Survey from Scopes to Scalia     49
Of Two Minds and One Nature     59
Biographies     65
Thomas Burnet's Battleground of Time     71
The Lying Stones of Marrakech     85
The Stinkstones of Oeningen     103
The Razumovsky Duet     114
The Power of Narrative     127
Not Necessarily a Wing     143
Worm for a Century, and All Seasons     155
The Darwinian Gentleman at Marx's Funeral: Resolving Evolution's Oddest Coupling     166
The Piltdown Conspiracy     182
Evolutionary Theory     205
The Evolution of Life on Earth     209
Challenges to Neo-Darwinism and Their Meaning for a Revised View of Human Consciousness     222
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory: Revising the Three Central Features of Darwinian Logic     238
The Episodic Nature ofEvolutionary Change     261
Betting on Chance-and No Fair Peeking     267
The Power of the Modal Bacter, or Why the Tail Can't Wag the Dog     278
The Great Dying     286
The Validation of Continental Drift     290
Phyletic Size Decrease in Hershey Bars     297
Size, Form, and Shape     303
Opus 100     307
Size and Shape     319
How the Zebra Gets Its Stripes     324
Size and Scaling in Human Evolution     333
Stages and Sequences     359
The Ladder and the Cone: Iconographies of Progress     362
Up Against a Wall     376
Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology     391
Pervasive Influence     395
The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Program     423
More Things in Heaven and Earth     444
Posture Maketh the Man     467
Freud's Evolutionary Fantasy     473
Racism, Scientific and Otherwise     487
Measuring Heads: Paul Broca and the Heyday of Craniology     490
The Most Unkindest Cut of All     534
A Tale of Two Work Sites     546
Carrie Buck's Daughter      564
Just in the Middle     574
Religion     587
Non-overlapping Magisteria     590
The Diet of Worms and the Defenestration of Prague     604
Darwin and the Munchkins of Kansas     616
Hooking Leviathan by Its Past     615
Sources and Acknowledgments     636
Index     641