RE: Lecture and book launch reception with Stephen Jay Gould

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Date: Tue Mar 12 2002 - 23:32:26 GMT

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    >From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
    >Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
    >Subject: RE: Lecture and book launch reception with Stephen Jay Gould
    >Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 11:15:45 -0000
    >
    >Believe it or not there's a new book called 'Dawkins vs Gould'. I forget
    >the author now, but I was looking at it in a bookshop the other day
    >(Blackwells in Charing Cross Road as it happens). Anyway, it apparently
    >deals with their disagreements over issues of evolution at level of
    >genes/organisms, gradualism/punctuation etc. etc. I don't know what the
    >conclusion is.
    >
    Kim Sterelny. 2001. Dawkins vs. Gould: Survival of the Fittest. Totem Books
    (or Icon Books in UK)

    One of those which has collected dust on my shelf thus far :-(
    >
    >BTW, anybody read Mayr's 'What Evolution Is'?
    >
    Yes.
    >
    >It got a fantastic review in
    >the Times Higher Education Supplement the other day.
    >
    It's pretty good. Mayr's a great writer.

    More pertinent to this thread I went and bought Gould's _The Strcture of
    Evolutionary Theory_ at over 1000 pages it nearly gave me a hernia. I
    thought about renting a front end loader to get it out to my car. I'll have
    to b careful when reading it not to drop it on my toes. Gould obviously has
    a lot to say about evolution in that book :-)

    I'm trying to read a couple of Howard Bloom's books right now.
    >
    >Vincent
    >
    > > ----------
    > > From: Steve Drew
    > > Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > > Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 22:28 PM
    > > To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > > Subject: RE: Lecture and book launch reception with Stephen Jay Gould
    > >
    > > Hi Vincent
    > >
    > > > Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 14:38:57 -0000
    > > > From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
    > > > Subject: RE: Lecture and book launch reception with Stephen Jay Gould
    > > >
    > > > Lucky you!
    > > >
    > > > If yo're inclined, ask him what he thinks about the 'Dawkins versus
    > > Gould'
    > > > book.
    > > >
    > > > Vincent
    > >
    > > What book is that?
    > >
    > > regards
    > >
    > > Steve
    > >
    > >
    > >
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