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"Lively and fascinating. . . . <Gould> writes beautifully about science and the wonders of nature."—Tracy Kidder Over a century after Darwin published the Origin of Species , Darwinian theory is in a "vibrantly healthy state," writes Stephen Jay Gould, its most engaging and... read more

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ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, never known for egalitarian perspectives, had this to say about the relative merit of the sexes: Woman is the lesser man, and all thy passions, matched with mine,

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  1. Stephen Jay Gould (Author)
 

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