Home / Books / Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA

Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA

Book by Neil Shubin · 1 quotes · Evolution, Motivated Reasoning, Popular Science

Browse quotes from Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA.

Book detail: Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA is presented as a focused source page for quotations connected with this book, collection, transcript, or source record.

Browse quotes from Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA.

The quotes below use the same card format as the rest of the site, including topics, source notes, copy actions, image creation, and sharing controls.

Filter quotes by topic

All Evolution Motivated Reasoning Popular Science Stephen Jay Gould

Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA Quotes

“By the mid-1980s, [Stephen Jay Gould] had emerged as a major public figure, using his background as a paleontologist to dive into controversies with radical stances on the ways new species emerge and how evolutionary change comes about. His [popular history of life] college class was composed of around six hundred students who, taking it as a distributional requirement, were unlikely to become science majors. This audience proved an ideal focal group for Gould to try out his new theories and presentations. Every Tuesday and Thursday in the fall he held forth, lecturing with dramatic flourish to undergraduates who either sat rapt in the front rows or sprawled sleeping in the rear ones.”

Book:Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA

Source: Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA