斯蒂芬·杰·古尔德（Stephen Jay Gould），当今世界上著名的进化论者，古生物学家、科学史学家和科学散文作家。1945年生于纽约，在安蒂奥克学院，哥伦比亚大学研读古生物并获博士学位。现任教于哈佛大学，并从事研究工作。主要著作有《自达尔文以来》、《熊猫的拇指》、《汉斯的牙与马的蹄》、《八头小猪》等。
We should therefore not be surprised that Thomas Henry Huxley, the arch rationalist and master of combat, should have chosen a chessboard for his image of natural reality:
< The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. (From A Liberal Education, 1868.) > (查看原文)
We are not surrogates for arthropods (more than 80 percent of animal species), or exemplars of anything either particular or typical. We are the possessors of one extraordinary evolutionary invention called consciousness—the factor that permits us, rather than any other species, to ruminate about such matters (or, rather, cows ruminate and we cogitate). (查看原文)
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms m...
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0 有用 [已注销] 2013-03-08 08:18:39
概率学好厉害～ 解决了我以前上生物课时，为什么猿到人、马爪子到马蹄子就非得叫进化的困惑
0 有用 星河~努力煮粥 2012-11-12 14:11:48
书名是《生命的壮阔》，内容却并不是叙述生命进化由低到高的壮美画卷的。在左墙理论下，生命只是在“演化”，很多历程都是由偶然碰触产生并由自然选择延续的，今日之生命并不能说是最高生物形式，人类也非智慧之光。了解了这一点，或许能对世界有更明晰的认识，对地球的未来也该增加一个考虑的纬度吧。
15 有用 雪莱 2012-10-13 10:09:13
很震撼的观点，就像布鲁诺把太阳系驱逐到宇宙的小角落一样，古尔德把人类和他们的进化树观念驱逐到生物学的小分支上，现今是细菌和节肢动物的时代，所谓复杂化高级化进化趋势，只是正态分布极右侧的点而已
0 有用 catapuella 2009-04-08 23:39:45
我愿意，从古尔德的角度，来理解进化论，理解生命史。
1 有用 林局 2010-06-04 16:46:07
中国多几个这样的科学家就好了。“好吧，我确实自相矛盾，同时我心胸开阔，包罗万有。”（这不就是小棉花说的心怀天下么）