Stephen J. Gould: The Scientific Legacy
Stephen J. Gould’s greatest contribution to science is a revised version of the theory of evolution which offers today a useful framework for understanding progress in many evolutionary fields. His intuitions about the conjunction of evolution and development, the role of ecological factors in speci...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Milan
2013, 2013
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2013 |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Evolutionary theory
- Niles Eldredge: Stephen J. Gould in the 1960s and 1970s, and the origin of “Punctuated Equilibria”
- Elisabeth A. Lloyd: Stephen J. Gould and adaptation: San Marco 33 years later
- Telmo Pievani: Kinds of pluralism. Stephen J. Gould and the future of evolutionary theory
- Part II: Genome and development
- T. Ryan Gregory: Molecules and macroevolution: a Gouldian view of the genome
- Alessandro Minelli: Individuals, hierarchies and the levels of selection: a chapter in Stephen J. Gould’s evolutionary theory
- Gerd B. Müller: Beyond spandrels: Stephen J. Gould, EvoDevo, and the extended synthesis
- Marcello Buiatti: Biological complexity and Punctuated Equilibria
- Part III The anthropological legacy
- Ian Tattersall: Stephen J. Gould’s intellectual legacy to anthropology
- Guido Barbujani: Mismeasuring man thirty years later
- Klaus R. Scherer: Affect bursts as evolutionary precursors of speech and music
- Winfried Menninghaus: Darwin's theory of music, rhetoric and poetry
- Part IV: Stephen J. Gould and human sciences
- Andrea Cavazzini: Beyond (and without) the invisible hand. Conceptual shifts between economics and the theory of evolution
- Alberto Gualandi: Stephen J. Gould, between humanism and anti-humanism. Neoteny, exaptation and human science