I Have Landed (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Stephen Jay Gould
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: History of science
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays, History, Science and technology
- Subjects: Nature, Science or scientists, Terrorism or terrorists, Learning or scholarship, Evolution, Biology or biologists, Thought or thinking, Life sciences
For twenty-seven years, from January, 1974, until January, 2001, Stephen Jay Gould, a paleontologist and historian of science at Harvard University best known in scientific circles as the cocreator of the theory of punctuated equilibria, contributed a monthly essay to Natural History magazine, a publication of the American Museum of Natural History. In three hundred essays published under the general title “This View of Life,” a title derived from a phrase in Charles Darwin’s concluding sentence in On the Origin of Species (1859), Gould examined science, history,...
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