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An Urchin in the Storm: Essays About Books and Ideas
by Stephen Jay Gould

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1987

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I - EVOLUTIONARY THEORY

1 -How Does a Panda Fit?

2 - Cardboard Darwinism

3 - Misserving Memory

4 - The Ghost of Protagoras

II - TIME AND GEOLOGY

5 - The Power of Narrative

6 - Deep Time and Ceaseless Motion

III - BIOLOGICAL DETERMINISM

7 - Genes on the Brain

8 - Jensen's Last Stand

9 - Nurturing Nature

IV - FOUR BIOLOGISTS

10 - Triumph of a Naturalist

11 - Thwarted Genius

12 - Exultation and Explanation

13 - Calling Dr. Thomas

V - IN PRAISE OF REASON

14 - Pleasant Dreams

15 - The Perils of Hope

16 - Utopia, Limited

17 - Integrity and Mr. Rifkin

18 - The Quack Detector

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