Stephen J. Gould: The Scientific Legacy

La Springer ha appena pubblicato un nuovo, approfondito testo sull’eredità di Stephen Jay Gould. I capitoli portano la firma dei più importanti evoluzionisti del mondo. A cura di Gian Antonio Danieli, Alessandro Minelli e Telmo Pievani

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PART I – EVOLUTIONARY THEORY
Stephen J. Gould in the 1960s and 1970s, and the Origin of “Punctuated Equilibria” 
Niles Eldredge
Stephen J. Gould and Adaptation: San Marco 33 Years Later 
Elisabeth A. Lloyd
Kinds of Pluralism: Stephen J. Gould and the Future of Evolutionary Theory 
Telmo Pievani
PART II – GENOME AND DEVELOPMENT
Molecules and Macroevolution: A Gouldian View of the Genome 
T. Ryan Gregory
Individuals, Hierarchies and the Levels of Selection: A Chapter in Stephen J. Gould’s Evolutionary Theory
Alessandro Minelli
Beyond Spandrels: Stephen J. Gould, EvoDevo, and the Extended Synthesis
Gerd B. Müller
Biological Complexity and Punctuated Equilibria
Marcello Buiatti
Part III – THE ANTRHOPOLOGICAL LEGACY
Stephen J. Gould’s Intellectual Legacy to Anthropology 
Ian Tattersall
Mismeasuring Man Thirty Years Later 
Guido Barbujani
Affect Bursts as Evolutionary Precursors of Speech and Music
Klaus R. Scherer
Darwin’s Theory of Music, Rhetoric and Poetry
Winfried Menninghaus
Part IV – STEPHEN J. GOULD AND HUMAN SCIENCES
Beyond (and Without) the Invisible Hand. Conceptual Shifts Between Economics and the Theory of Evolution
Andrea Cavazzini
Stephen J. Gould, Between Humanism and Anti-humanism. Neoteny, Exaptation and Human Sciences 
Alberto Gualandi