#Einstein #EinsteinsBrain #CottonFields #SweatShops #Opportunity #OpportunityGap #Equality #Mobility #SocialMobility #Gini #GiniCoefficient #Talent #Gould #StephenJayGould

#Einstein #EinsteinsBrain #CottonFields #SweatShops #Opportunity #OpportunityGap #Equality #Mobility #SocialMobility #Gini #GiniCoefficient #Talent #Gould #StephenJayGould

A great summary from "a relative outsider to this established field".

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the theory of Punctuated Equilibria, published by @niles_eldredge and #StephenJayGould in 1972.
by Emily Casanova
https://scienceoveracuppa.com/2022/10/13/celebrating-the-50th-anniversary-of-the-theory-of-punctuated-equilibria/

👉 Project Steve...

Named in honor of the late paleontologist #StephenJayGould, a valiant supporter of both evolution education and the NCSE
https://ncse.ngo/twenty-years-project-steve

Useless Quote for 27 Feb:

"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, "Full House" (1996)

#UselessQuote #StephenJayGould

How Theories in Evolution Evolve
An Interview with Dr. Niles Eldredge
https://academicinfluence.com/interviews/biology/niles-eldredge

The @AMNH ’s @niles_eldredge discusses history of evolutionary theory of punctuated equilibrium, his work with #StephenJayGould, climate change, environmental law.

Russel's 1932 essay reminds me of a 1979 work by #StephenJayGould: #WideHatsNarrowMinds. The whole essay is in my 1988(?) copy of The Practical Stylist. For years, I thought the few lines I remembered were from a piece by James Baldwin. The lines said to worry less about the characteristics of great brains like Einstein's and more about the conditions that have great brains dying in cotton fields. My guess is that old liberal arts books of thoughtful writing could ease recent "AI" worries.

Russel's 1932 essay reminds me of a 1979 work by #StephenJayGould: Wide Hats Narrow Minds. The whole essay is in my 1988(?) copy of The Practical Stylist. For years, I thought the few lines I remembered were from a piece by James Baldwin. The lines said to worry less about the characteristics of great brains like Einstein's and more about the conditions that have great brains dying in cotton fields. My guess is that old liberal arts books of thoughtful writing could ease recent "AI" worries.

New blog post on "The Bacterial Allstars"
Featuring #StephenJayGould #Evolution #Science #Books #WonderfulLife #Baseball #GeorgeGaylordSimpson #Gould #LTEE #TempoAndMode #Meetings #Autographs

https://telliamedrevisited.wordpress.com/2023/01/21/the-bacterial-allstars/

"There is no progress in evolution.
The fact of evolutionary change through time doesn't represent progress as we know it."
#StephenJayGould

THE PATTERN OF LIFE'S HISTORY
https://www.edge.org/conversation/stephen_jay_gould-chapter-2-the-pattern-of-lifes-history

The Problems of Evolution as a ‘March of Progress’
https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/evolution-march-progress-anthropocentrism/

The ‘March of Progress’ is one of my pet peeves. It's wrong, leading to misunderstanding evolution.

#StephenJayGould: Darwin's Revolution in Thought
https://youtu.be/BS3loLR-QtM

“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” https://www.kottke.org/17/12/inequality-and-americas-lost-einsteins #StephenJayGould

it’s assumed that #Einstein was on the #AutismSpectrum but talent /= #HumanRights

#Productivity #Genius #Brain #SocialJustice #BasicIncome #Inequality #Sociology #Civilization #Evolution #AlbertEinstein #Autism

… un #séquoiagéant communiste ; le #NOMA de #stephenjaygould ; #Hulk ; les liens entre humains et #dauphins, pour la pêche, et avec les #plantessauvages pour l’alimentation ; les précurseurs arabes de la pensée évolutionniste. l’abbé Dicquemare, naturaliste normand du 18e siècle ; les nids d’oiseaux de la #carottesauvage (#Daucuscarotta) ; des #coraux aux petits soins de leurs #algues symbiotiques et les origines géologiques de nos #terroirs

… un #séquoiagéant communiste ; le #NOMA de #stephenjaygould ; #Hulk ; les liens entre humains et #dauphins, pour la pêche, et avec les #plantessauvages pour l’alimentation ; les précurseurs arabes de la pensée évolutionniste. l’abbé Dicquemare, naturaliste normand du 18e siècle ; les nids d’oiseaux de la #carottesauvage (#Daucuscarotta) ; des #coraux aux petits soins de leurs #algues symbiotiques et les origines géologiques de nos #terroirs

@Sheril @keesey

I remember #StephenJayGould describing "#PunctuatedEquilibrium" back in the day. 🙂

#NaturalHistory #Evolution

@ameliahanslow
#neilgaiman
#candacemillard
#stephenking
#georgerrmartin
#georgesaunders
#stephenjaygould
#rachelcusk

Am I doing this right?

#reading #bookstodon #WritersofMastodon

> I learned that the parochiality had been mine.. not Kropotkin’s in his isolation in England.. The ideas of this school are unknown to us; we do not even recognize the names of the major protagonists. I knew #Kropotkin because he had published in #English and lived in #England, but I never understood that he represented a standard, well-developed #Russian critique of #Darwin, based on interesting reasons and coherent national traditions.
https://www.marxists.org/subject/science/essays/kropotkin.htm
#StephenJayGould #Russia

“What gets measured gets managed — even when it’s pointless to measure and manage it, and even if it harms the purpose of the organization to do so.” -- #PeterDrucker and
"It’s dubious and dangerous, Drucker is saying, to take what’s measurable for what’s important. But he’s also saying something much more radical, even subversive: Some things that can be measured shouldn’t be." -- #NicolasCarr on the #MisMeasureOfMan ? maybe #stephenjaygould too. #MeasureHuman
- https://www.roughtype.com/?p=4970

Theories that cannot be tested in principle are not a part in science
#StephenJayGould

Theories that cannot be tested in principle are not a part in science
#StephenJayGould