Volume 55, Number 2 · February 14, 2008
The Triumph of Stephen Jay Gould
By Richard C. Lewontin
The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay Gould
edited by Steven Rose, with a foreword by Oliver Sacks
Norton, 653 pp., $35.00
Punctuated Equilibrium
by Stephen Jay Gould
Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 396 pp., $18.95 (paper)
One of the most interesting developments of the last sixty years in the popularization of intellectual concerns and higher culture has been the appearance of 'public intellectuals.' They are, for the most part, academics who use a variety of means of access to a wide audience to disseminate ideas that are sometimes an integral part of their expertise, and sometimes very far from their professional field.
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