Word: gould
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...more serious note, Gould began the dialogue by citing what was, for him, an "obvious" choice...
About 75 people paid $135 each to hear the thoughts of Warburg Professor of Economics emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith, Professor of Geology Stephen J. Gould, Radcliffe Public Policy Fellow Wendy Kaminer, Cowles Professor of Sociology Orlando Patterson and Esquire columnist Mark Leyner as they discussed their picks in the hotel's Seasons restaurant...
...From a purely parochial view as an evolutionary biologist, I have to come down with the...utterly unsurprisingly choice--Charles Darwin," Gould said...
Kovach observed, however, that "millennial terms are too short for [Gould's] thought process," and Gould bore that out in his opening remarks...
...into a crisis. First they recalibrated the geological clock, chopping the Cambrian period to about half its former length. Then they announced that the interval of major evolutionary innovation did not span the entire 30 million years, but rather was concentrated in the first third. "Fast," Harvard's Gould observes, "is now a lot faster than we thought, and that's extraordinarily interesting." (Watch TIME's video "Darwin and Lincoln: Birthdays and Evolution...