Weird how many people will unfollow you for saying Gould had meaningful contributions to evolutionary theory. Is this controversial or something now? I get he didn't like hereditarianism, but why overextend the argument so far against him?
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Gould's book 'The mismeasure of man' is the most intellectually dishonest book I've ever read (which is saying a lot). Ideologically biased to an catastrophic degree. It misled generations of students to reject IQ research, and caused massive harm to the educational system.
What exactly did Gould contribute? Not all traits are adaptive? Known since the 1850s. Evolution's speed varies? Known since the 1930s. Life tends to get more complex from a lower boundary of zero complexity? Basic bounded diffusion theory.
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Punctuated equilibrium, spandrels, exaptations, historical contingency, the Cambrian Explosion, reanalysis of Haeckel's law and creation of evo-devo.
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Truthfully, the contribution by Gould is understated because *paleontology's* contribution to evolutionary theory is understated.
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Pat synopsis. But you do you.
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