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...book itself represents—arguably—the most ambitious discussion of evolution since Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species. Professor of Psychology Marc Hauser said in an interview that The Structure of Evolutionary Theory is “really two parts: one is an incredible history of evolutionary history, and in that sense very much like Ernst Mayr’s book The Growth of Biological Thought. Part two is really how [Gould] sees his own thinking in evolutionary biology fitting in with alternative perspectives.” Gould agrees with this synopsis, comparing...
...picked up the morning paper, I read that people of Indian origin now make up 30% of all America's doctors, and another 250 Indians fill the faculties of America's top 10 business schools. Indians are the highest earning immigrant group in the U.S., indeed, and the reason I had come to New Delhi was to participate in a Festival of Literature celebrating the fact that a disproportionate number of the writers prominent in the world today are of Indian descent. Japan, the paper also reported, was sinking ever deeper into a depression compounded by inertia and a national...
...Nobody has said this to my face, but possibly my Pakistani origin kept people away after Sept. 11,” he said. According to Iftikhar, sales dropped by almost 40 percent after the terror attacks...
...could be the economy, it could be my origin, but Sept. 11 was really the last nail in the coffin,” he said...
Darwin anticipated such doubts, and admitted in The Origin of Species that the eye at first seems to imply an intelligent designer. But then he traced a scenario for the step-by-step evolution of a mere "nerve sensitive to light" into a "living optical instrument...