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Stephen Jay Gould

May 2014

  • Benedict Cumberbatch as theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking

    Scientists on screen - in pictures

    The private lives of the great inventors, discoverers and academics were often extraordinary. So it's not surprising that film-makers have been drawn to celebrate them and that actors have produced some terrific performances. Kit Buchan chooses the pick of the bunch over the years including Russell Crowe as John Nash and Walter Matthau as Einstein

October 2013

  • Portrait of Author John Cheever

    Daily Rituals by Mason Currey – review

    What do Beethoven, Capote and Auden have in common? Seb Emina discovers the strange daily rituals of our artistic heroes

November 2011

  • Dinosaur in a Haystack by Stephen Jay Gould – review

    By PD Smith

November 2009

  • Human skull and a bone placed in the crypt under Mchaelerkirche in the centre of Vienna

    Science book club
    Race and intelligence: A sorry tale of shoddy science

    Tim Radford

    The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould exposes the shameful history of research into race and intelligence

February 2004

  • The gear
    Bats and stats

    Stephen Jay Gould's Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville teaches Michael Dibdin everything he wanted to know about baseball, and more

January 2004

  • The gear
    Life's a pitch

    Stephen Jay Gould presents the most persuasive case yet that baseball is more than overgrown rounders in Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville

May 2002

  • Zealous workman in Darwin's cathedral

    The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould

  • A grand finale

    Stephen Jay Gould's last collection of essays, I Have Landed, is a fitting memorial to a provocative science writer

    • Adventures in evolution

    • Stephen Jay Gould

    • Evolution loses a key populariser

April 2002

  • Robin McKie

    The time lord

    Robin McKie

    Fellow Darwinists hate Stephen Jay Gould's talent for self-publicity while creationists fear his ability to enthuse millions about evolution. Next week he publishes the climax of his life's work and secures his place in the history of science

September 2001

  • Ground Zero's vital crumbs of comfort

    The patterns of human history mix decency and depravity in equal measure. We often assume, therefore, that such a fine balance of results must emerge from societies made of decent and depraved people in equal numbers.

February 2001

  • A hands-off God?

    Stephen Jay Gould's new study Rocks of Ages is a scientist's response to the creationists. Chris Lavers learns why science and religion don't mix

May 2000

  • DiMaggio of science hits a last home run

    Stephen Jay Gould's penultimate collection of essays, The Lying Stones of Marrakech, is as fascinating as ever

April 2000

  • Fossil fools

    Tim Radford learns history's lessons in Stephen Jay Gould's penultimate collection of essays, The Lying Stones of Marrakech

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