Darwiniana I

Darwiniana I

Darwin's Revolution in Thought

This is a lecture made by Stephen Jay Gould at Wittenburg University. I simply took his voice and added pictures and video. I do not own ANY of it!

The lecture was derived from Part I of Gould's book, "Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History." Part 1 of the book is called "Darwiniana" and is composed of four chapters: Ch 1 "Darwin's Delay," Ch 2 "Darwin's Sea Charge, or Five Years at the Captain's Table," Ch 3 "Darwin's Dilemma: The Odyssey of Evolution," and Ch 4 "Darwin's Untimely Burial."

I've split the video into a few parts, each a little under ten minutes. After watching them, I hope you see how Gould incorporated each chapter of Darwiniana into the lecture. They revolve around Darwin and the birth of what Gould calls one of the greatest half-dozen scientific ideas of all time. He tackles fundamental questions and asks them in the form of riddles. The lecture was titled "Darwin's Revolution in Thought," because Darwin's ideas were radical and difficult for people to digest.

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[TomPaineII]

RIP Steve Gould

[apathyinmortalform]

what possible conflict would be between an obviously symbolic creation account(s) in genesis & a perfectly plausible account of the physical evolution of species, including our own, i have no idea. rabbis were promulgating theories of evolution in the middle ages and quite a bit before even than that.

[PuppetXeno]

great job on the video material, indeed spices up this brilliant lecture and makes it easier to follow it.

good show!

[cpaslapeine]

thank you for uploading this