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This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- Another second-hand volume to my growing collection of The Correspondence of #CharlesDarwin, this one Volume 26: 1878, published by Cambridge University Press.
- #Warhammer: The Art of #GamesWorkshop, a rather rare exhibition catalogue of grimdark artwork that I bought via eBay.
- I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in #NaturalHistory, the final of the essay bundles from #StephenJayGould, published by Harmony Books.

#Books #Bookstodon #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #Scicomm @bookstodon

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
-- Stephen Jay Gould

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Kayaks #Everglades #Florida

Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life, which if replanted from seed, would almost surely not grow this twig again.
-- Stephen Jay Gould

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Hammock #KinderhookCreek #NewYork

How Phrenology Queered Language: Walt Whitman and the Evolving Lexicon of Love

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/05/30/traversal-phrenology-whitman/

“ #Science is rooted in creative interpretation. #Numbers suggest, constrain and refute; they do not, by themselves, specify the content of #scientific #theories.” - #StephenJayGould, The Mismeasure of Man.

Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould (EPUB)
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
File Type: EPUB
Download at https://sci-books.com/ever-since-darwin-reflections-in-natural-history-b00i036l8e/
#Literature, #StephenJayGould

I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould (PDF)
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
File Type: PDF
Download at https://sci-books.com/i-have-landed-the-end-of-a-beginning-in-natural-history-0674061624/
#Science, #StephenJayGould

The Mismeasure of Man (Revised and Expanded) by Stephen Jay Gould (PDF)
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
File Type: PDF
Download at https://sci-books.com/the-mismeasure-of-man-revised-and-expanded-b007q6xn2s/
#Sociology, #StephenJayGould

Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time (The Jerusalem-Harvard lectures Book 2) by Stephen Jay Gould (PDF)
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
File Type: PDF
Download at https://sci-books.com/times-arrow-times-cycle-myth-and-metaphor-in-the-discovery-of-geological-time-the-jerusalem-harvard-lectures-book-2-b095t2v923/
#Geography, #StephenJayGould

Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould (EPUB)
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
File Type: EPUB
Download at https://sci-books.com/bully-for-brontosaurus-reflections-in-natural-history-b004gb1fu8/
#Science, #StephenJayGould

The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould (EPUB)
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
File Type: EPUB
Download at https://sci-books.com/the-flamingos-smile-reflections-in-natural-history-b004dnwlx4/
#Nature, #StephenJayGould

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould (PDF)
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
File Type: PDF
Download at https://sci-books.com/wonderful-life-the-burgess-shale-and-the-nature-of-history-b00h987fs6/
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Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould (PDF)
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
File Type: PDF
Download at https://sci-books.com/full-house-the-spread-of-excellence-from-plato-to-darwin-0674061616/
#Science, #StephenJayGould

Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould (EPUB)
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
File Type: EPUB
Download at https://sci-books.com/hens-teeth-and-horses-toes-further-reflections-in-natural-history-b004crsn60/
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Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History (Norton Paperback) by Stephen Jay Gould (EPUB)
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
File Type: EPUB
Download at https://sci-books.com/eight-little-piggies-reflections-in-natural-history-norton-paperback-b004dnwlxe/
#Nature, #StephenJayGould

Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown 1st Edition by Stephen Jay Gould (PDF)
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
File Type: PDF
Download at https://sci-books.com/questioning-the-millennium-a-rationalists-guide-to-a-precisely-arbitrary-countdown-1st-edition-b000fc1k48/
#Physics, #StephenJayGould

Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould (EPUB)
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
File Type: EPUB
Download at https://sci-books.com/leonardos-mountain-of-clams-and-the-diet-of-worms-essays-on-natural-history-0674061632/
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The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould (EPUB)
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
File Type: EPUB
Download at https://sci-books.com/the-pandas-thumb-more-reflections-in-natural-history-0393308197/
#Science, #StephenJayGould

The Hedgehog, The Fox And The Magister's Pox: Mending and Minding the Misconceived Gap Between Science and the Humanities by Stephen Jay Gould (PDF)
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
File Type: PDF
Download at https://sci-books.com/the-hedgehog-the-fox-and-the-magisters-pox-mending-and-minding-the-misconceived-gap-between-science-and-the-humanities-b0069sp8vs/
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Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.
-- Stephen Jay Gould

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Palms #Florida

This week's #NewBooks at the library: Second-hand copies of The Lying Stones of Marrakech (another one of the essay collections of #StephenJayGould), The Breath of a Whale: The Science and Spirit of Pacific Ocean Giants by Leigh Calvez, and The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee #Books #NaturalHistory #Whales #MarineBiology #Genetics #HistoryOfScience #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon

This week's #NewBooks at the library: I contributed to a Kickstarter for Swedish Machines from Free League, the latest book with brilliant artwork from Simon Stålenhag. I also bought second-hand copies of The Cosmic Zoo: Complex Life on Many Worlds from Springer, as well as Dinosaur in a Haystack, another collection of the natural history essays by #StephenJayGould that I am slowly collecting.

#Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon #Astrobiology #Evolution #NaturalHistory @bookstodon

This week's #NewBooks at the library: Catching up on December - Roadside Picnic (a birthday present to myself from The Folio Society), #StephenJayGould's Leonardo's Clams from Harmony Books, and the unexpectedly large Scientists Debate #Gaia from @themitpress #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon #ScienceFiction #NaturalHistory #Ecology

No soy de idolatrar a nadie

"Yo en corto"

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This week's #NewBooks at the library: Lost Wonders, a new review copy from Picador. Having reviewed Macroevolutionaries recently, I have started collecting #StephenJayGould's collected essays, starting with Bully for Brontosaurus. Lastly, a chance find of another very affordable copy in The University of Arizona Space Science Series: The #Pluto System After #NewHorizons.

#Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon #Extinction #Astronomy #Astrodon

@fromjason

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”

- #StephenJayGould

Stephen Jay Gould on the role of women:

“Bless all the women of this world who nurture our heritage while too many man rush off to kill for ideals that might now be deeply and personally held, but will often be viewed as repugnant by later generations.”

Don't you think women will save the world ... again ... in November?

Photo credit: Amazon
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Stephen Jay Gould (Happy Birthday) on science -

“In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.”

“We do not usually surrender the intellectual system of a lifetime for one bit of information that does not fit.”

Photo credit: https://socbib.dk/stephen-jay-gould-1941-2002/
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Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.
-- Stephen Jay Gould

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #StephenJayGould #HumanEvolution

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #Kayaks #Everglades #Florida