I Have Landed

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I Have Landed
Author	Stephen Jay Gould
Genre(s)	Non-fiction, Science
Publisher	W. W. Norton & Co.
Publication date	May 14, 2002
Pages	432
ISBN	ISBN 0-609-60143-1
Preceded by	The Lying Stones of Marrakech

I Have Landed (2002) is the 10th and final volume of collected essays by the Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. The essays were culled from his monthly column "The View of Life" in Natural History magazine, to which Gould contributed for 27 years. The book deals, in typically discursive fashion, with themes familiar to Gould's writing: evolution and its teaching, science biography, probabilities and common sense.

The series of consecutive essays began in 1974, ending in January of 2001 with the title essay "I have landed." The title refers to the very first words his grandfather Papa Joe wrote as he arrived on Ellis Island, New York as a newly arrived Hungarian immigrant, September 11, 1901.

[edit] Contents

• Preface
  1. Pausing in Continuity
     1. I Have Landed
  2. Disciplinary Connections: Scientific Slouching Across a Misconceived Divide
     2. No Science Without Fancy, No Art Without Facts: The Lepidoptery of Vladiir Nabokov
     3. Jim Bowie's Letter and Bill Buckner's Legs
     4. The True Embodiment of Everything That's Excellent
     5. Art Meets Science in The Heart of the Andes: Church Paints, Humboldt Dies, Darwin Writes, and Nature Blinks in the Fateful Year of 1859
  3. Darwinian Prequels and Fallout
     6. The Darwinian Gentleman at Marx's Funeral: Resolving Evolution's Oldest Coupling
     7. The Pre-Adamite in a Nutshell
     8. Freud's Evolutionary Fantasy
  4. Essays in the Paleontology of Ideas
     9. The Jew and the Jewstone
     10. When Fossils Were Young
     11. Syphilis and the Shepherd of Atlantis
  5. Casting the die: Six Evolutionary Epitomes
     Defending Evolution
     12. Darwin and the Munchkins of Kansas
     13. Darwin's More Stately Mansion
     14. A Darwin for All Reasons
         

     Evolution and Human Nature

     15. When Less Is Truly More
     16. Darwin's Cultural Degree
     17. The Without and Within of Smart Mice
  6. The Meaning of Drawing of Evolution
     Defining and Beginning
     18. What Does the Dreaded "E" Word Mean Anyway?
     19. The First Day of the Rest of Our Life
     20. The Narthex of San Marco and the Pangenetic Paradigm
     21. Linnaeus's Luck?
     22. Abscheulich! (Atrocious)
     23. Tales of a Feathered Tail
  7. Natural Worth
     24. An Evolutionary Perspective on the Concept of Native Plants
     25. Age-Old fallacies of Thinking and Stinking
     26. The Geometer of Race
     27. The Great Physiologist of Heidelberg
  8. Triumph and Tragedy on the Exact Centennial of I Have Landed, September 11, 2001 Introductory Statement
     28. The Good People of Halifax
     29. Apple Brown Betty
     30. The Woolworth Building
     31. September 11, '01

• Bibliography
• Index

[edit] Reviews

• A Grand Finale - by Robin McKie, The Observer.
• Book review - by Dan Schneider, Hack Writers.
• Book review - by Jim Walker