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STEPHEN JAY GOULD'S NEW TAKE ON CHARLES DARWIN

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From: Rocky Mountain News
Date: 20020803
Author:Linda Seebach ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS

Stephen Jay Gould's distinguished dual careers as a paleontologist and as a writer about science both, in their different ways, paid homage to Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution. Not long before his death in May, Gould published The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, a massive reorganization of the subject that incorporates the findings of 20th-century science.

When even people who get their science news from Saturday Night Live have heard about the sequencing of the human genome, and the genetic engineering of plants and animals, it's startling to be reminded that Darwin didn't know ...

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