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Instead, I ask him about the “selfish gene,” championed by one of Gould’s critics, Richard Dawkins. Gould devotes about 50 pages in Chapter 8 of The Structure of Evolutionary Theory to explaining why he believes that the “selfish gene” argument is wrong—“just factually wrong.” For Gould, natural selection “also works on groups within species, it works on species. It can work on whole clades, which are groups of related species. A lot of what...
...book; he jokes that “I haven’t even found a typo.” I ask him for a 100-page abridged version. He suggests the first 50 or so pages, the six-page segue between the two parts, and the last section of Chapter...
...mistake of asking Gould the typical reporter’s question: can you summarize your theory on punctuated equilibrium, which you formulated with Niles Eldredge in 1972? “No, no—I don’t do that,” he says, referring me to Chapter 9 of the latest book and a 1993 Nature paper written by him and Eldredge
...begin, for irony's sake, in January 2001, when thousands of draft notices arrived in the mail at the homes of Israeli army reservists in standard-issue brown envelopes bearing the legend "Chapter 8" - Israel's code for a call-up for war. Those notices were fake, part of a sneaky effort to reduce Sharon's 20-point lead over Ehud Barak two weeks before a crucial election by suggesting that if Sharon were elected, the draft notices would be real. Sharon won, and sure enough, a little over a year later the real draft notices arrived, calling up some...
...landmark of Jewish culture in Germany. (Tel. 87 85 68 1; Open every day from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.) The Holocaust is movingly dealt with, but the museum also encompasses nearly 2,000 years of Jewish culture in Germany. Most of the displays are interactive, so that each chapter of history seems fresh and distinct from the last. For example, Jewish life 1,000 years ago is captured on a brief film (with English subtitles, like other exhibits) showing what houses and synagogues looked like in cities such as Worms at the turn of the first millennium...