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Un portrait de Stephen Jay Gould

Marcel BLANC

fr Comptes Rendus Palevol 2 (6-7) - Pages 329-334

Published on 30 November 2003

This article is a part of the thematic issue Les chemins de l’Évolution : sur les pas de Steven Jay Gould

A portrait of Stephen Jay Gould

From 1982 to 2002, as Stephen Jay Gould's translator and friend, I came to greatly value his personal qualities as a man, and admire him as a fine scientist and theorist.


Keywords:

Compassion, irony, paradox, universality, authenticity, History, writing, ponctuate equilibria, evolutionary theory, palaeoanthropology, agnosticist

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