I have no idea where it came from (I assume it was made by PBS), but I just happened to stumble across this program all about Stephen Jay Gould called "This View of Life."
Watching the documentary is a bit strange because I never knew the young, gangly Gould. The first time I ever saw him on television (although I had no idea who he was), he was a stouter man talking about paleontology in a European museum, Palaeotherium being associated with the memory although I can't really recall how. In any case, it's definitely interesting to watch this program now, and I do appreciate the brief look at the dinosaur halls at the AMNH; that was the way it looked during my first visit when I was five. The rest of the parts are found below;
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He's not young & gangly here; in 1984 he was about 40. At this time he was recovering from his first bout of cancer (mesothelioma) and had undergone significant chemo & radiation therapy. One of the things he said then was that now he could have two helpings of dessert with no problem. (I was his Ph.D. student, and graduated in 1983).
RZ; I was speaking comparatively. As I said in the post itself I was more familiar with Gould as he looked on the back of The Structure of Evolutionary Theory and had never seen earlier photographs or video of him. I did know that this was from about the time that he was recovering from his first bout of cancer, though. Thank you for the comment and clarifications, though. I lament that I only really became interested in evolution three years after Stephen died and I still feel that his death was a huge loss to science.
Thank you for bringing this video to my attention. I teach an introductory evolution course at a community college and I have had my students read Gould and have odd video snippets of him,especially from the PBS evolution series,but this is something I will definitely use in class to introduce students to him.
I also must mention that, as a forty-something, 40 IS damn young...I hope.
Thanks for posting these, Brian. I discovered Gould's books many years ago & recommend them to my own students (especially the earlier volumes; he did seem to get wordier as time went on). But never heard him speak. So this is great.
What happened to this video? Why was it pulled from viewing? One would think that Gould's sage words on science, especially evolution, would be allowed the widest possible distribution in times of know-nothing attacks on science.
Thanks for posting these, Brian. I discovered Gould's books many years ago & recommend them to my own students.
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