{"id":1121,"date":"1998-04-23T12:30:00","date_gmt":"1998-04-23T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i81.a52.mywebsitetransfer.com\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2010-02-08T12:30:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T19:30:59","slug":"stephen-jay-gould-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/?p=1121","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Jay Gould, lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>April 23, 1998<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lecture<\/strong>:\u00a0<strong>Stephen Jay Gould<\/strong> and the\u00a0<em>Antioch Review, <\/em>with an introduction by Robert S. Fogarty. Gould teaches biology, geology and the history of science at Harvard University, where he has been on the faculty since1967. Well known for his popular scientific writings, in particular his monthly column in Natural History magazine, he is the author of thirteen books, including:\u00a0<em>Ever Since Darwin; Evolution &amp; Extinction : Eassys; Full House : The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin; Human Evolution; Mismeasure of Man; Ontogeny and Phylogeny; and Why People Believe Weird Things : Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time. <\/em>&#8220;The history of life is not necessarily progressive; it is certainly not predictable. History includes too much chaos, or extremely sensitive dependence on minute and unmeasurable differences in initial conditions, leading to massively divergent outcomes based on tiny and unknowable disparities in starting points.&#8221; -Stephen J. Gould.<\/p>\n<p class='fb-like'><iframe src='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/?p=1121&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=260&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light' scrolling='no' frameborder='0' allowTransparency='true' style='border:none; overflow:hidden; width:260px; height:26px'><\/iframe><\/p><fb:share-button href=\"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/?p=1121\" type=\"box_count\"><\/fb:share-button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 23, 1998 Lecture:\u00a0Stephen Jay Gould and the\u00a0Antioch Review, with an introduction by Robert S. Fogarty. Gould teaches biology, geology and the history of science at Harvard University, where he has been on the faculty since1967. Well known for his popular scientific writings, in particular his monthly column in Natural History magazine, he is the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/?p=1121\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stephen Jay Gould, lecture&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-science-research","category-lectures-and-panels"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1122,"href":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions\/1122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}