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Title: A shock
Review: I'm by no means a fan of late Stephen J. Gould. As many others have said, I admire his scholarship and literary style, but do not like his science. The punctuated equilibria thing, his flirtation with saltationism, and his mingling of politics with science are more than I can stand.Yet this book is a terrible one -and I mean in the bad sense. 700 pages long, it devotes the first 150 or so to sound-bites arguments against Gould, which come close to character assassination, rethorical accusations, and name calling. More shocking, the next 550 pages are a list -an unending list of thousands upon thousands of purportedly modular behaviours, with no references or description whatsoever, that 'prove' Gould was wrong.I had hoped to read a good book on evolutionary biology, a serious rebuttal of Gould theories. This book is definitely not one of those. Don't waste your money.
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