Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould (10. srpnja 1941. – 20. svibnja 2002.) je bio američki paleontolog, evolucijski biolog, i povjesničar znanosti.
Životopis
Gould je bio jedan od najutjecajnijih i najčitanijih pisaca popularne znanosti svoje generacije. Iako je rođen kao Židov, nije prakticirao nikakvu organiziranu religiju; iako je odgojen u duhu socijalizma, nije postao aktivni socijalist. Istupao je protiv onog što je vidio kao kulturno tlačenje u bilo kojem obliku, naročito protiv pseudoznanosti u službi rasizma.
Radio je na Harvardskom sveučilištu od 1967., nakon doktorata na Sveučilištu Columbia. Pred kraj života je radio kao profesor zoologije na tom sveučilištu.
Stephen Jay Gould je poznat među najširom intelektualnom publikom po svojim zbirkama eseja (originalno objavljivanih jednom mjesečno u časopisu Natural History), i nekoliko drugih knjiga, od kojih je na hrvatski prevedena Mismeasure of Man (1981.) kao Čovjek po mjeri (2003.).
Skoro istodobno s iznenadnom smrti Goulda, objavljen je veliki njegov rad Structure of Evolutionary Theory, u kojem sumira povijesni razvoj i trenutno stanje teorije evolucije, a iznosi i svoja gledišta; za razliku od popularnih knjiga, usmjerena je prema stručnoj publici.
Osim proučavanja puževa Cerion na Bahamima i pisanja, Gould je bio veliki zaljubljenik u bejzbol.
Djela
Stručni radovi
- Ontogeny and Phylogeny (Harvard University Press, 1977), ISBN 0-674-63940-5 <abbr title="Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.">nevaljani ISBN
- The Structure of Evolutionary Theory (Harvard University Press, 2002), ISBN 0-674-00613-5 <abbr title="Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.">nevaljani ISBN
Popularne knjige
- The Mismeasure of Man (W.W. Norton, 1981; prerađeno 1996), ISBN 0-393-03972-2 <abbr title="Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.">nevaljani ISBN; prevedeno kao Čovjek po mjeri (Jesenski & Turk, 2003), ISBN 953-222-140-9 <abbr title="Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.">nevaljani ISBN
- Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle (Harvard University Press, 1987), ISBN 0-674-89198-8 <abbr title="Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.">nevaljani ISBN
- Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (W.W. Norton, 1989), ISBN 0-393-02705-8 <abbr title="Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.">nevaljani ISBN
- Full House: The Spread of Excellence From Plato to Darwin (Harmony Books, 1996), ISBN 0-517-70394-7 <abbr title="Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.">nevaljani ISBN (objavljeno izvan Sjeverne Amerike kao Life's Grandeur: The Spread of Excellence From Plato to Darwin (Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1996), ISBN 0-099-89360-6 <abbr title="Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.">nevaljani ISBN)
- Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown (Harmony, 1997); također objavljeno u bitno proširenom drugom izdanju (Harmony, 1999), ISBN 0-609-60541-0 <abbr title="Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.">nevaljani ISBN
- Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life (Ballantine Books, 1999), ISBN 0-345-43009-3 <abbr title="Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.">nevaljani ISBN
- The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox: Mending the Gap Between Science and the Humanities (Harmony, 2003), ISBN 0-609-60140-7 <abbr title="Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.">nevaljani ISBN
Zbirke eseja iz časopisa Natural History
- Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History (Norton, 1977), ISBN 0-393-06425-5 <abbr title="Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.">nevaljani ISBN
- The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History (Norton, 1980), ISBN 0-393-01380-4 <abbr title="Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.">nevaljani ISBN
- Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History (Norton, 1983), ISBN 0-393-01716-8 <abbr title="Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.">nevaljani ISBN
- The Flamingo's Smile (Norton, 1985), ISBN 0-393-02228-5 <abbr title="Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.">nevaljani ISBN
- Bully for Brontosaurus (Norton, 1991), ISBN 0-393-02961-1 <abbr title="Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.">nevaljani ISBN
- Eight Little Piggies (Norton, 1994), ISBN 0-393-03416-X <abbr title="Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.">nevaljani ISBN
- Dinosaur in a Haystack (Harmony, 1995), ISBN 0-517-70393-9 <abbr title="Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.">nevaljani ISBN
- Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms (Harmony, 1998), ISBN 0-609-60141-5 <abbr title="Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.">nevaljani ISBN
- The Lying Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History (Harmony, 2000), ISBN 0-609-60142-3 <abbr title="Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.">nevaljani ISBN
- I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History (Harmony, 2001), ISBN 0-609-60143-1 <abbr title="Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.">nevaljani ISBN
Ostale zbirke eseja
- An Urchin in the Storm (Norton, 1987), ISBN 0-393-02492-X <abbr title="Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.">nevaljani ISBN
- Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville: A Lifelong Passion for Baseball (Norton, 2003), ISBN 0-393-05755-0 <abbr title="Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.">nevaljani ISBN
- Paul McGarr, ed., The Richness of Life: A Stephen Jay Gould Reader (Jonathan Cape, 2006), ISBN 0-224-07607-8 <abbr title="Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.">nevaljani ISBN
Vanjske poveznice
- Neslužbena arhiva o Stephenu Jayu Gouldu (eng.), sadrži mnoge Gouldove eseje i tekstove vezane za njega