Gould on Darwin

I am not sure when it was recorded, but here is the audio (with pictures added by "CosmosFan1") from a lecture Stephen Jay Gould delivered at Wittenburg University in Ohio. There are a few unintentional flubs involving the dates Gould cites (that's 1859, not 1959...) but otherwise it's an interesting perspective on why Darwin's work was so important. Gould's take on Darwin's motivations for developing his theory get a bit speculative, but it is an interesting review all the same;









[My apologies, it seems that the remainder of this lecture has not been posted yet.]

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I had the great honor of seeing Stephen Jay Gould give a lecture here in NY at the Brecht Forum, had to be either in 96 or 97.