I Have Landed
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| Author | Stephen Jay Gould |
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| Genre | Non-fiction, Science |
| Publisher | W. W. Norton & Co. |
Publication date | May 14, 2002 |
| Pages | 432 |
| ISBN | 0-609-60143-1 |
| OCLC | 49421722 |
| 578 21 | |
| LC Class | QH45.5 .G735 2002 |
| 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 "This 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 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.
Contents
- Preface
- Pausing in Continuity
- Disciplinary Connections: Scientific Slouching Across a Misconceived Divide
- No Science Without Fancy, No Art Without Facts: The Lepidoptery of Vladimir Nabokov
- Jim Bowie's Letter and Bill Buckner's Legs
- The True Embodiment of Everything That's Excellent
- Art Meets Science in The Heart of the Andes: Church Paints, Humboldt Dies, Darwin Writes, and Nature Blinks in the Fateful Year of 1859
- Darwinian Prequels and Fallout
- The Darwinian Gentleman at Marx's Funeral: Resolving Evolution's Oldest Coupling
- The Pre-Adamite in a Nutshell
- Freud's Evolutionary Fantasy
- Essays in the Paleontology of Ideas
- The Jew and the Jewstone
- When Fossils Were Young
- Syphilis and the Shepherd of Atlantis
- Casting the die: Six Evolutionary Epitomes
Defending Evolution- Darwin and the Munchkins of Kansas
- Darwin's More Stately Mansion
- A Darwin for All Reasons
Evolution and Human Nature
- When Less Is Truly More
- Darwin's Cultural Degree
- The Without and Within of Smart Mice
- The Meaning of Drawing of Evolution
Defining and Beginning - Natural Worth
- An Evolutionary Perspective on the Concept of Native Plants
- Age-Old fallacies of Thinking and Stinking
- The Geometer of Race
- The Great Physiologist of Heidelberg
- Triumph and Tragedy on the Exact Centennial of I Have Landed, September 11, 2001
Introductory Statement- The Good People of Halifax
- Apple Brown Betty
- The Woolworth Building
- September 11, '01
- Bibliography
- Index
Reviews
- A Grand Finale - by Robin McKie, The Observer.
- Review of I Have Landed
- Book review - by Jim Walker
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