The man who knew too much: Stephen Jay Gould's opus posthumous.

From: Harper's Magazine | Date: June 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

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The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, by Stephen Jay Gould. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002. 1,433 pages. $39.95.

Not long before publishing his first book, the young Bertrand Russell received some advice about literary technique. It came from his future brother-in-law, Logan Pearsall Smith, the aesthetic and slightly loopy brother of Alys Pearsall Smith, who became Russell's first wife. Seven years older than Bertrand, Logan had studied the classics at Balliol and hung with artists in Paris; he was an imposing if dubious ...

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