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Stephen Jay Gould was one of the writers I read as a teenager that changed my world view and way of thinking for the rest of the life. And I don't even like bas
by lanstin 2y ago
Stephen Jay Gould was one of the writers I read as a teenager that changed my world view and way of thinking for the rest of the life. And I don't even like baseball, even now :) Such a clear thinker.
- queuebert 2y agoHe wrote his books as more or less first drafts. He had a lot of great ideas, but clear is not an adjective I would have attributed to his books.
- lanstin 2y agoclear thinking; his deep ideas he returned to again and again - history of deep time, punctuated evolution, the implications of human evolution not being a climb towards some teleological end but of complexity gradually increasing with time. The incredible degree to which evolution and biology "take advantage" of contingent happenings.