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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Sure, but again, I think this was Gould's idiotic hubris towards the end of his career rather than him being some kind of sneaky saboteur.
He was an ideological saboteur against sociobiology and evolutionary psychology ever since the mid-70s, when he was still pretty young....
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I still think spandrels was a good paper (do you not?). I've also gone to great lengths to describe the climate at Harvard during that time where a disagreement between Wilson and Gould turned into elevator confrontations. His hubris was most damaging in Mismeasure.
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I recommend you read Darwin’s Dangerous Idea for some illumination on both Spandrels and Punctuated Equilibrium.
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