The Structure of Evolutionary Theory (Hardcover)

from ehines

I've been living with this book for a few weeks now. It's big, so it is the sort of book that becomes part of your life for a while if you stick with it, like a piece of furniture (it's certainly big enough to be one). Anyhow, wanted to report back on a few things: First, on the writing--there ar...

from ehines

I've been living with this book for a few weeks now. It's big, so it is the sort of book that becomes part of your life for a while if you stick with it, like a piece of furniture (it's certainly big enough to be one). Anyhow, wanted to report back on a few things: First, on the writing--there ar...

from Devil_llama

This book is quite a bit of work to get through, both because of its length and because it is not written for a lay audience. From time to time, Gould felt the need to remind his readers that he was a real scientist, and this was his magnum opus. It is a masterful work, though not as fun and ligh...

from mosaic42

I'm only 100 pages in -- somewhere in the chapter where he presents essay-length outlines of each of the remaining chapters. This is undoubtedly a truly important work, not to mention monumental (in every sense of the word). So what if Gould's publisher could not afford him an editor ;-) I look f...

from BillHall

Gould's masterwork and the authoritative summation of 20th Century evolutionary biology. Unfortunately, Gould died of cancer before it could be edited. The result is a meticulous description, defense and extension of Darwinian evolutionary theory that is unfortunately filled with excess verbiage ...