CONTENTS
| The Nature and Power of Historical Science | ||
| 1 | McPherson, James M., "Epilogue: To the Shoals of Victory," in Battle Cry Freedom: The Civil War Era, p.p. 853-862 | 1 |
| 2 | Corporate, "The Voice of the Victorious Confederate States," in The Economist, p.p. 52 | 7 |
| Deep Time and the Age of the Earth | ||
| 3 | Gould, Stephen Jay, "Fall in the House of Ussher," in Natural History, Vol. 100 (November 1991): p.p. 12-21 | 9 |
| The Discovery of History (Leonardo) | ||
| 4 | Gould, Stephen Jay, "Theory of the Living Earth," in Natural History, Vol. 106 (May 1997): p.p. 18-21, 58-64 | 17 |
| The Calibration of History (Time Scale) | ||
| 5 | Rudwick, Martin J.S., "Living and Fossil Elephants," in Georges Cuvier, Fossil Bones and Geological Catastrophes: New Translations and Interpretations of the Primary Texts, Ch. 2, pp. 13-24 | 27 |
| The Arrows and Cycle of Time | ||
| 6 | Borges, Jorge Luis, "The Book of Sand," in The Book of Sand, Norman Thomas di Giovanni, trans., pp. 117-122 | 35 |
| 7 | Burnet, Thomas, Selection from The Sacred Theory of the Earth, bk.1,ch.1, pp. 23-33 | 39 |
| James Hutton's World Machine | ||
| 8 | Playfair, J., Selection from Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth pp. 119-135 | 51 |
| 9 | Cuvier, M., Selection from Essay on the Theory of the Earth, pp. 1-23 | 61 |
| Charles Lyell the Principle of Uniformity | ||
| 10 | Lyell C., Concluding Remarks on the Identity of the Ancient and Present System of Terrestrial Changes pp. 323-327 | 73 |
| 11 | Lyell C., "Prejudices Which Have Retarded the Progress of Geology," in The Modern Progress of Geology, pp. 111-131 | 77 |
| Charles Darwin Revolution in Thought | ||
| 12 | Gould, Stephen Jay, "Darwin and Paley Meet the Invisible Hand," in Natural History, Vol. 99 No. 11 (November 1990): 8-16 | 89 |
| 13 | Darwin, Charles, Selection from "Mauritus to England," in The Voyage of the Beagle, 2nd Ed., pp. 476-487 | 95 |
| 14 | Gould, Stephen Jay, "Nonmoral Nature," in Natural History, Vol. 91 No. 2 (February 1982): 19-26 | 101 |
| The Factual Basis of Evolution | ||
| 15 | Gould, Stephen Jay, "The Panda's Peculiar Thumb," in Natural History, 87(9): 20-30 | 105 |
| 16 | Thewissen, J.G.M., et al, (1994) "Fossil Evidence for the Origin of Aquatic Locomotion in Archaeocete Whales," in Science 263: 210-212 | 109 |
| Creationism as an American Socio-cultural Phenomenon/The Limits and Social Misuses of Darwinian Explanation | ||
| 17 | The World's Most Famous Trial, excerpts from the Scopes Trial of July 1925, pp. 170-183, pp. 284-304 | 113 |
| 18 | Lewin, R. (1982) "Judge's Ruling Hits Hard at Creationism," in Science 215: 381-384 | 133 |
| 19 | Gould, Stephen Jay, "Justice Scalia's Misunderstanding," in Natural History, 96(10), pp. 14-21 | 137 |
| The Myth of Progress | ||
| 20 | Gould, Stephen Jay, "Trends as Changes in Variance: A New Slant on Progress and Directionality in Evolution," in Journal of Paleontology, 62(2), pp. 319-329 | 141 |
| 21 | McShea, DW "Complexity and Evolution: What Everybody knows", in Biology and Philosophy 6: 303-324 | 153 |
| Size and Shape | ||
| 22 | LaBarbera, M. "B-Movie Biology," in University of Chicago Magazine (Oct-Dec 1996): 18-24 | 165 |
| 23 | Haldance, J.B.S., "On Being the Right Size," in Possible World, pp. 18-26 | 173 |
| The Myth of Gradualism | ||
| 24 | Gould, Stephen Jay, and Eldredge, Niles "Punctuated Equilibrium Comes of Age," in Nature, 366(6452), pp. 223-227 | 179 |
| 25 | Gould, Stephen Jay, "Cordelia's Dilemma," in Possible World, (Feb. 1993), pp.10-18 | 185 |
| 26 | Stebbin, G. and Ayala, F., "Is a New Evolutionary Synthesis Necessary?" in Science, 213, pp. 967-971 | 191 |
| The Myth of Adaptationism | ||
| 27 | Gould, Stephen Jay, and Lewontin, R.C., "The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationst Programme," in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, Vol. 205, pp. 581-598 | 197 |
| 28 | Mayr, Ernst, "How to Carry out the Adaptationist Program?," in The American Naturalist, 121, pp.324-334 | 215 |
| 29 | Wallace, Alfred Russell, "The Limits of Natural Selection as Applied to Man" in Natural Selection and Tropical Nature, Ch. IX, pp. 186-214 | 227 |
| The Origin and Classification of Life | ||
| The Myth of Determism | ||
| 30 | Gould, Stephen Jay, "Tires to Sandals," in Natural History, 98(4), pp. 8-15 | 243 |
| 31 | Schopf, JW, The Oldest Fossils and What They Mean. Major Events in the History of Life. 29-64 | 247 |
| The Earth's First Fauna of Multicellular Animals | ||
| 32 | Seilacher, A "Vendozoa: Organismic Construction in the Preterozoic Biosphere," Lethaia 22: 229-239 | 281 |
| 33 | Gould, Stephen Jay, "The Ediacaran Experiment," in Natural History, (February, 1984) pp. 14-23 | 293 |
| 34 | Xiao, S., Y. Zhang, et al. "The Ediacaran Experiment," in Natural History, (February, 1984) pp. 14-23 | 299 |
| The Data of the Cambridge Explosion | ||
| 35 | Briggs, DEG and DH Erwin, et al. "Other Arthropods; Animals not assigned to Major Group. The Fossils of the Burgess Shale. 173-189, 201-215 | 305 |
| 36 | Gould, Stephen Jay, "The Reversal of HALLUCIGENIA," in Natural History, (January, 1992) pp. 12-20 | 319 |
| The Data of the Cambrian Explosion | ||
| 37 | Gould, Stephen Jay, "Of Tongue Worms, Velvet Worms, and Water Bears" in Natural History, (January, 1995) pp. 6-15 | 325 |
| 38 | Morris, Simon Conway, and Stephen Jay Gould, "Showdown on the Burgess Shale," pp. 48-55 | 331 |
| Gradual Catastrophic Theories of Mass Extinction | ||
| 39 | Alvarez, L.W., et. al., "Extraterrestrial Cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction," in Science 208, pp.1095-1108 | 339 |
| 40 | Kring David A., "The Chicxulub Impact Event and Possible Causes of K/T Boundary Extinctions," in Proceedings of the First Annual Symposium of Fossils in Arizona, pp. 63-79 | 353 |
| 41 | Raup, D.M., "The Case for Extraterrestrial Causes of Extinction," in Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society of London," 325 (1228), pp. 421-435 | 371 |
| The Impact of Mass Extinction upon the History of Life | ||
| 42 | Gould, Stephen Jay, "The Wheel of Fortune and the Wedge of Progress," in Natural History, 98 (3), pp. 14-22 | 387 |
| 43 | Gould, Stephen Jay, "Dinosaurs in the Haystack," in Natural History, March, 1992, pp. 2-13 | 393 |
| 44 | Jablonski, D. "Background and Mass Extinctions: The Alternation of Macrovolutionary Regimes," in Science, 231: 129-133 | 399 |
| Vertebrate Evolution | ||
| 45 | Gould, Stephen Jay, "Eight (or Fewer) Little Piggies," in Natural History, 100 (1), pp. 22-29 | 405 |
| 46 | Knoll AH and RK Ambach, et al. Comparative Earth History and Late Permian Mass Extinction in Science 272 (5274): 452-457 | 411 |
| Glorious Accident of Human Evolution | ||
| 47 | Wood, Bernard, "Origin and Evolutin of the Genus Homo," in Natural, 355, pp. 783-790 | 417 |
| 48 | Gould, Stephen Jay, "Human Equality is a Contingent Fact of History," in Natural History, 93 (11), pp. 26-33 | 425 |
| 49 | Gould, Stephen Jay, "Up Against a Wall," in Natural History, 105 (7):: 16-18, 22, 70-73 | 429 |
| Copyright Citation Pages | 437 | |