Volume 39, Number 19 · November 19, 1992

The Confusion over Evolution

By Stephen Jay Gould
The Ant and the Peacock: Altruism and Sexual Selection from Darwin to Today
by Helena Cronin

Cambridge University Press, 490 pp., $39.50

The Miner's Canary
by Niles Eldredge

Prentice Hall, 246 pp., $19.50

On Methuselah's Trail: Living Fossils and the Great Extinctions
by Peter Douglas Ward

W. H. Freeman, 212 pp., $18.95

Oliver Cromwell delivered history's most famous rebuke to the hero-worshiping that irons all subtlety into flawless cardboard:



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