About this title: This volume describes the content and discusses the history and origins of the three core commitments of Darwinism, examines the three critiques that challenge this Darwinian edifice and proposes a system for integrating these commitments and critiques into a structure of evolutionary thought.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Belknap Press
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780674006133ISBN:0674006135
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Belknap Pr
Date Published: 2002-03-21
ISBN-13:9780674006133ISBN:0674006135
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Belknap Press
Date Published: 2002
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Edition: First Edition; Fourth Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, New York
Date Published: 2002
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Edition: First
Binding: hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Date Published: 2002
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780674006133ISBN:0674006135
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Description: Near Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 1433 pp. Indexed. Clean, crisp with Only very slight edge wear to jacket. Not clipped. Mylar protected. A single highlighted sentence. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA London, England
Date Published: 2002
Description: 10.25" x 7". 1433pp. Sage green cloth covered hardback with gilt cover device and spine lettering in dust wrapper. Fine condition. The dust jacket is in fine condition. From the front flap, "...a landmark publication, both for its historical sweep and for its scientific vision. " Illustrated with black and white photographs, drawings and charts. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Belknap Press
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780674006133ISBN:0674006135
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press, London, United Kingdom
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780674006133ISBN:0674006135
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Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Belknap Press, New York, New York
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780674006133ISBN:0674006135
Description: New in new dust jacket. The Dust Jacket is protected with a mylar wrapper. This is an unread copy. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 1464 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780674006133ISBN:0674006135
Description: New. The world's most revered and eloquent interpreter of evolutionary ideas offers a work of explanatory force unprecedented in our time--the history and origins of the three core commitments of classical Darwinism. 88 line illustrations. 4 tables. read more
"I do not recommend this book to any but the dedicated. It is 1,343 pages in length, but this is not quite so intimidating as the material. Here, Gould writes a technical book on the history and structure of evolutionary theory, reviewing other theories and giving a chapter dedicated to his own hypothesis: punctuated equilibrium (this chapter is better known as his book Punctuated Equilibrium), published five years posthumously). I foolishly read this tome as an introduction to evolutionary theory (a month after I had read my first book on evolution, The Neanderthal Enigma), but perhaps it was not wholly wrong: I did learn a more honest and complete theory, rather than the glossy and concise explanations in introductory evolutionary books. The chapters are also long and disparate enough that this opus maximum can be treated as several books compiled, and might be used as referential reading.
My copy almost always falls open to page 620, which is the beginning of his discussion of hierarchical selection, and the refutation of the all-too-famous genic selection of Richard Dawkins. I don't know quite when this was published-it must have been immediately before or after Gould's death in the same year. This is not so amicably written as Gould's earlier work, but certainly worth the time. I think that I learned more about evolution reading this than at any other one time. I count it one of the greatest tragedies of our time that Mr Gould (whom I count the greatest biologist, paleontologist, revolutionary, and evolutionary orator of all time) died young, leaving us with Mr Dawkins. But what a rich book (and closing sentence) he left us to remember him by!"
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