Features: The Gould Files

Writings related to the ongoing debate involving Stephen Jay Gould and others (In somewhat "threaded" order)

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 28, 2001

• Dorothy It's Really Oz - "a pro-creationist decision in Kansas is more than a blow against Darwin" by S.J.Gould. Time, Aug 23, 1999
  • The Accidental Creationist: Why Stephen Jay Gould is bad for evolution. by Robert Wright.This essay originally appeared in The New Yorker, Dec. 13, 1999. It is adapted from chapters 19 and 20 of Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, by Robert Wright
    • Steven Pinker interrogates Robert Wright on his new book Nonzero. Slate, Feb 2000. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
    • Chicken Soup For The Evolutionist's Soul - a review of Nonzero, by Michael Shermer
    • Look Who's Stalking by Ethan Smith. New York Magazine, Feb 14, 2000
• Darwinian Fundamentalism and The Pleasures of Pluralism by S.J.Gould. NYRB June 12 & 26, 1997
  • Feud for thought by Andrew Brown. The Guardian June 11, 1997
    • Richard Dawkins' response to Andrew Brown. The Guardian June 16, 1997
  • Tooby and Cosmides' response to Gould - linked from the CogWeb: Cognitive Cultural Studies. July 7, 1997
  • Gould on Adaptationism - a review by Francis F. Steen, UCSB
  • Responses from Daniel Dennett and Robert Wright, with feedback from Gould. NYRB Aug 14, 1997
  • Steven Pinker vs Stephen Jay Gould. NYRB Oct 9, 1997
    • Against Nature by Steven Pinker. from Discover
  • Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES) - How can modern evolutionary theory help to advance our understanding of human behavior?
  • Darwin's Truth, Jefferson's Vision: Sociobiology and the Politics of Human Nature by Melvin Konner. American Prospect, July-Aug, 1999
    • Fool's Gould : Will the Left Finally Stop Buying It?
• Dawkins and Gould swap book reviews in the June 97 issue of the journal Evolution (Vol. 51 June 1997 No. 3).
  • Richard Dawkins: Human Chauvinism - review of Gould's book Full House
  • Stephen Jay Gould: Self-help for a hedgehog stuck on a molehill - review of Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins
• Book: Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life by Stephen Jay Gould
  • When Religion Steps on Science's Turf by Richard Dawkins - "Nonoverlapping Magisteria"- Free Inquiry (Spring, 1998 - Volume 18, Number 2 ) - Darwin Re-crucified
  • Snake Oil and Holy Water by Richard Dawkins - Illogical thinking is the only thing joining science and religion together. One of many essays by scientists and thinkers just published in Forbes ASAP, BIG ISSUE IV - "THE GREAT CONVERGENCE", 10/4/99
  • The Holes in Gould’s Semipermeable Membrane Between Science and Religion - review of by Ursula Goodenough
  • Gould on God: Can religion and science be happily reconciled? by H. Allen Orr
• Book: Wonderful Life by Stephen Jay Gould
  • Richard Dawkins' review of Gould's book Wonderful Life. 1990
  • The Intelligence Test: Stephen Jay Gould and the Nature of Evolution By Robert Wright. 1990
• Book: The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould
  • Neo-Lysenkoism, IQ, and the press by Davis, Bernard D. The Public Interest, 74, 41-59.  (1983).
  • Upstream > Issues > Psychology IQ - other related articles.
• Evolution in the Boston Review - here book reviews generally support Gould and Lewontin's views on evolution
• Interview with Stephen Jay Gould. Discusses his book Full House. Slate Sept 1996
  • Homo Deceptus: Never trust Stephen Jay Gould. by Robert Wright, author of The Moral Animal. Salon Nov 27, 1996
• The Biological Basis of Morality by Edward O. Wilson (excerpt from Consilience)
  • Biology Rules - Niles Eldredge & Stephen Jay Gould review Consilience : The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson. Nov, 1998
• Richard Dawkins' review of Not in Our Genes: Biology, Ideology and Human Nature by Steven Rose, Leon J. Kamin and R.C.Lewontin. From "Sociobiology: the debate continues", New Scientist 24 January (1985)
• "THE TWO STEVES"- Pinker vs. Rose - A Debate (Part I) and (Part II) Questions and Answers - from The Third Culture on John Brockman's EDGE.
  • EDGE 3rd Culture: HOW CAN EDUCATED PEOPLE CONTINUE TO BE RADICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS - a talk by David Lykken
• "Sexual Selection and the Mind" - A Talk with Goeffrey Miller
• "How Is Personality Formed?" - A Talk With Frank J. Sulloway
• The Darling of the Masses - Evolutionary geneticist Laurence Hurst braves the wrath of Darwinists with his Swiftean guide to who thinks what. New Scientist (6 June 1998)
• Socialising Darwin -  by WG Runciman. from Prospect April 1998
• Science and ideology by Edward O. Wilson - a revealing article about Richard Lewontin and the shameful history of the "Sociobiology Study Group" - Vol. 8, Academic Questions, 06-01-1995.
• some further reading:
  • The Third Culture chapters by Gould, Eldredge, Dennett, Dawkins, etc
  • Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Dennett
  • Ontogeny and Phylogeny by Stephen Jay Gould (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1977)
  • Wonderful Life by Stephen Jay Gould
  • The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould
  • The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals by Simon Conway Morris.
  • The Blind Watchmaker by Dawkins (chapter punctuated eq.)
  • The Extended Phenotype by Dawkins
  • Unweaving the Rainbow by Dawkins (Chapter 8: Huge Cloudy Symbols of a High Romance)
  • EVOLUTION: second edition by Mark Ridley
  • "Born That Way": Genes | Behavior | Personality by William Wright
  • Mystery of Mysteries : Is Evolution a Social Construction by Michael Ruse
  • The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life by Robert Wright
  • Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, by Robert Wright

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