Volume 33, Number 14 · September 25, 1986

Cardboard Darwinism

By Stephen Jay Gould
Vaulting Ambition
by Philip Kitcher

MIT Press, 456 pp., $25.00

Myths of Gender
by Anne Fausto-Sterling

Basic Books, 258 pp., $18.75

Females of the Species: Sex and Survival in the Animal Kingdom
by Bettyann Kevles

Harvard University Press, 270 pp., $20.00

Darwin began the Origin of Species not with fanfare, but with fantails—pigeons, that is. He wrote in Chapter 1:



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