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...previous years, the travails of Stephen Jay Gould and his quest to explain the history of the world--and his role in it--appear under the chapter heading Science B-16. Walter J. Kaiser '54 was supposed to resume his biennial journey through Elizabethan England yesterday accompanied by his ne'er-do-well sidekick Robert Watson, in an adventure entitled Literature and Arts A-40, "Shakespeare." Or so Courses of Instruction led the unwary reader to believe. But Watson was not granted tenure by the University and will henceforth be frolicking in another forest...
After the first four and one-half billion years, Professor of Geology Stephen J. Gould took over, saying, "Geological time is so immense we can only grasp it in metaphor...
...Gould challenged accepted theories and said that human existence was not inevitable. If one organism had not been successful, man might not have evolved, he said...
...play life's tape again, there's no reason to think the winners wouldn't be different," Gould said...
...Gould pointed to the dinosaurs, saying that there was no biological reason for the dinosaur mass extinction, which he said was probably caused by some type of extraterrestrial impact...