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I Have Landed

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by Stephen Jay Gould

Blake, William, (i)

  blood (sanguine humor), (i), (ii)

  bloodletting, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Blumenbach, J. F., (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Bois, Eugen du, (i)

  Bolivar, Simon, (i)

  Bonaventure, Saint, (i)

  Bonnet, Charles, (i)

  Bonpland, Aimé, (i)

  Borchardt, Rudolf, (i)

  Bork, Robert, (i)

  Bosch, Hieronymus, (i)

  Boston Cecilia, (i)

  Boston Red Sox, (i)

  Bowie, Jim, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Bowler, Peter, (i)

  Boyd, B., (i)

  Brahe, Tycho, (i)

  brain

  comparative studies of, (i)

  pattern recognition by, (i)

  British Communist Party, (i)

  British Museum, (i), (ii)

  Broca, Paul, (i)

  Browne, Sir Thomas, (i), (ii)

  Bruno, Giordano, (i)

  Bryan, William Jennings, (i)

  Bryozoa, (i)

  Buckner, Bill, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Buffon, Baron Georges Leclerc, (i)

  Bugs Bunny, (i)

  Burgess Shale, western Canada, (i)

  Burke, Edmund, (i), (ii)

  Burnet, Rev. Thomas, (i)

  butterflies

  artistic depictions of, (i)

  “blues,” (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  labels of, (i)

  Latin names of, (i), (ii)

  literary references to, (i), (ii)

  as metaphor, (i)

  Nabokov and, (i), (ii)

  wing patterns of, (i)

  Cadman, Rev. S. Parkes, (i)

  Caesalpinus, Andreas, (i), (ii)

  Cain, mark of, (i), (ii)

  calendars

  and millenium, (i), (ii)

  origins of, (i)

  calotte, use of term, (i)

  Cambrian Explosion, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Campanella, Roy, (i)

  Canada, kindness in, (i)

  Carlyle, Jane, (i)n

  Carney, Art, (i)

  cartography, (i), (ii)

  Casey at the Bat, (i)

  castration, (i)

  Caucasians, classification of, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Caudipteryx, (i)

  causation, in stories, (i)

  cave paintings of Chauvet, (i)

  C. elegans roundworm, (i)

  Cenozoic mammals, (i)

  ceraunia (thunder stones), (i), (ii)

  change, variational vs. transformational, (i)

  Charcot, Jean-Martin, (i), (ii)

  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, (i)

  Charles VIII, king of France, (i), (ii)

  Chauvet, cave paintings of, (i)

  Chelicerata, (i)

  Chengjiang Formation, China, (i)

  Chesterton, G. K., (i)

  chimpanzees, (i), (ii)

  choler (dry-hot humor), (i), (ii)

  Chopin, Frederic, (i)

  Chordata, (i), (ii)

  Church, Frederic Edwin, (i), (ii)

  Humboldt’s influence on, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  landscape paintings by, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Churchill, Winston, (i), (ii)

  classification systems, see taxonomy

  clavicles, as evolutionary link, (i)

  Clinton, W. J. (Bill), (i), (ii)

  coincidence, and numerology, (i)

  Cole, Thomas, (i)

  Collected Poems (Johnson), (i)

  colonization, patterns of, (i)

  Columbus, Christopher, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  commonality, (i)

  common ancestor, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Communist Manifesto (Marx and Engels), (i)

  compositional fallacy, (i)—35

  Condé, Prince of, (i)

  Condorcet, Marquis de, (i)

  Conrad, Joseph, (i)n

  Constitution, U.S., (i)

  contagion, three styles of, (i)

  contrarians, (i)

  Copernicus, (i), (ii)

  Cornell University, (i), (ii)

  Cos, General, (i), (ii)

  cosmos, harmonius, (i)

  Cotopaxi (Church), (i), (ii)

  Council of Trent, (i)

  creation

  in Haydn’s text, (i), (ii)

  and literalism, (i), (ii)

  and millennium, (i), (ii)

  pre-Adamites and, (i)

  as progressive differentiation vs. successive addition, (i)

  in San Marco mosaics, (i)

  on second day, (i)

  of separate races, (i)

  sequential, (i)

  Creation, The (Haydn), (i), (ii)

  creationism, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  creation myths, (i), (ii), (iii)

  creativity

  coordination in, (i)

  excellence as goal of, (i)

  and intellectual understanding, (i)

  in science, (i), (ii)

  Cretaceous birds, (i)

  criminal man, (i)

  Crockett, Davy, (i), (ii)

  Croker, Charlie, (i), (ii)

  Croll, Oswald, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Croll’s sympathetic ointment, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  cultural change, properties of, (i)

  culture, use of term, (i)

  Cuvier, Georges, (i), (ii)

  Cynips (gall-wasp), taxonomy of, (i)

  Darrow, Clarence, (i)

  Darwin, Caroline, (i)

  Darwin, Charles, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  autobiography of, (i)

  Beagle voyage of, (i), (ii), (iii)

  birth of, (i), (ii)

  Descent of Man by, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  and evolution, see evolution

  Humboldt’s influence on, (i)

  Humboldt’s vision confuted by, (i)

  influence of, (i), (ii)n, (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi)

  and Marx, (i)

  on natural selection, see natural selection

  Origin of Species by, see Origin of Species

  and politics, (i)

  and two planes of comprehension, (i)

  Variation of Animals and Plants by, (i)

  Darwin, Marx, Wagner (Barzun), (i)

  Darwinian orthodoxies, (i), (ii)

  Das Kapital (Marx), (i), (ii), (iii)

  Daughters of the Republic of Texas, (i)

  “day-age” theory, (i), (ii)

  Declaration of Independence, (i), (ii)

  deep time, (i), (ii)

  De generis humani varietate nativa (Blumenbach), (i)

  de Havilland, Olivia, (i)

  Deinonychus, (i)

  della Porta, Giambattista, (i)

  democracy, spirit of, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Demus, Otto, (i)

  De Natura Fossilium (Agricola), (i)

  De Rerum Fossilium (Gesner), (i)

  Descent of Man, The (Darwin), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Detroit, public schools in, (i)

  dextrous, derivation of word, (i)

  dichotomization, (i), (ii)

  dichotomous keys, (i)

  Dicyemida, (i)

  DiMaggio, Joe, (i), (ii), (iii)

  dinosaurs

  and birds, (i), (ii)

  canonical stories of, (i)

  Mesozoic, (i)

  new discoveries of, (i)

  Dionysius Exiguus (Dennis the Short), (i), (ii)

  Diplodocus, (i)

  directionality, in stories, (i)

  “Discovery, A” (Nabokov), (i)

  disease

  classification of, (i)

  curative powers of rocks over, (i)

  external cause of, (i)

  germ theory of, (i), (ii)

  naming of, (i), (ii)

  placebo effect of remedies for, (i)

  spread of, (i), (ii)

  and traditional medicine, (i)

  venereal
(syphilis), (i)

  Disney, Walt, (i)

  diversity

  in natural history, (i), (ii), (iii)

  pre-Adamism and, (i), (ii)

  racial, (i), (ii), (iii)

  value of, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Domingo, Plácido, (i), (ii)

  Donkin, H. B., (i)

  Doolittle, W. Ford, (i)

  Douglas, Lord Alfred, (i)

  Doyle, Arthur Conan, (i)

  D’Oyly Carte Opera, (i)

  Drosophila (fruit fly), (i)

  Duchamp, Marcel, (i)

  Duncan, Henry, (i)n

  Duncan, Isabelle, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Dutz-freunde, use of term, (i)

  dystopian tales, (i)

  Earth

  from center to periphery, (i)

  geological history of, (i), (ii)

  in harmony with heavens, (i)

  origins of, (i), (ii), (iii)

  rotation of, (i)

  education

  evolution curricula in, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)n, (v), (vi), (vii)

  German system of, (i)

  lifetime learning, (i)

  rigor in, (i)

  textbook publishing, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Ehrlich, Paul, (i)

  Einstein, Albert, (i), (ii)

  Eldredge, Niles, (i)

  Eliot, George, (i), (ii)

  elite control of the masses, (i)

  Ellis Island, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  embryology, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  emotion, vs. intellect, (i)

  empirical record, truth found in, (i)

  Engels, Friedrich, (i), (ii)

  English hat, (i)

  English leave, (i)

  Enlightenment, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Entrochus (wheel stones), (i)

  Entwickelungsgeschichte der Thiere (von Baer), (i)

  environment, adaptation to, (i), (ii)

  environmental changes, (i), (ii)

  epigenesis, (i)

  e pluribus unum, (i)

  equal impact argument, (i)

  Erasmus, (i)

  error

  correction of, (i)

  types of, (i)

  Ethiopians, classification of, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Etough, Geoffrey, (i)

  European Neanderthals, (i)

  Europeans, taxonomy of, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Eve, creation of, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Ever Since Darwin (Gould), (i), (ii)

  evolution

  in astronomy, (i), (ii), (iii)

  bias in records of, (i), (ii)

  branching in, (i), (ii)

  causality in, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  as central organizing principle, (i), (ii)

  and extinction, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  factual basis of, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  false assumptions in, (i), (ii)

  fossil record of, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  of genetic differences, (i)

  golden barrier in, (i)

  human, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

  intermediary stages in, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  as key word, (i)

  LGT and, (i)

  meanings of word, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  and natural selection, see natural selection opponents of, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  opportunistic quality of, (i)

  pre-Darwinian concepts of, (i), (ii)

  and psychoanalysis, (i), (ii)

  and racism, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  in school curricula, (i), 216n, (ii), (iii), (iv)

  transformation fallacy in, (i), (ii), (iii)

  transitional forms in, (i)

  evolutionary biology, (i), (ii), (iii)

  excellence, (i), (ii)

  and commercialism, (i), (ii)

  compromise vs.,786

  as goal of creativity, (i)

  on two planes, (i), (ii), (iii)

  and understanding, (i)

  excelsior (state motto), (i), (ii)

  exceptions, power in, (i)

  extinction, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  of dinosaurs, (i)

  of intermediate forms, (i), (ii)

  of stars, (i)

  Eyck, Jan van, (i)

  Fanning, William and Oriana, (i), (ii)

  Faraday, Michael, (i)

  Fay, Margaret A., (i), (ii)

  feathers, roles of, (i), (ii)

  Ferenczi, Sándor, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Feuer, Lewis S., (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  fiddlehead ferns, (i)

  fishes, jaws lacking in, (i)

  Fiske, Richard S., (i)

  FitzRoy, Captain, (i)

  Fliess, Wilhelm, (i)

  Flynn, Errol, (i)

  Foner, Philip., (i)

  fossil, derivation of word, (i), (ii)

  fossil record, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  fossils

  classification of, (i), (ii)

  illustrations of, (i), (ii)

  intermediary, (i), (ii)

  radioactive dating of, (i)

  Schröder’s theory of, (i)

  Fracastoro, Girolamo, (i), (ii)

  Franciscan writers, (i)

  Francis I, king of France, (i)

  Franklin, Benjamin, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Frazee, Harry, (i)

  French disease, (i), (ii), (iii)

  French leave, (i)

  French letters, (i)

  Freud, Anna, (i)

  Freud, Sigmund, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Frost, Robert, (i)

  fruit fly research, (i)

  Fugger family, (i)

  Full House (Gould), (i)

  Furuya, H., (i)

  Galen, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Galilean writers, (i)

  Galileo Galilei, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Gall, Franz Joseph, (i), (ii)

  gall-wasp, taxonomy of, (i)

  gap theory, (i)

  Garden of Earthly Delights (Bosch), (i)

  Gasman, D., (i)

  Gay, J., (i)

  gemmules, (i)

  gene, use of term, (i)

  genes

  “for” specific traits, (i), (ii)

  organisms as sum of, (i)

  patenting of, (i)

  transfer of, (i)

  Genesis

  and creation myths, (i), (ii)

  and geology, (i)

  and Haydn’s text, (i), (ii)

  and pre-Adamite man, (i), (ii), (iii)

  and San Marco narthex, (i), (ii)

  sources of, (i)

  gene therapies, (i)

  genetic determinism, (i)

  genetics, Mendelian, (i)

  genius loci, (i)—38

  genome research, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  genus name, (i), (ii), (iii)

  geography

  Kosmos on, (i)

  precise measurement in, (i)

  geology, and deep time, (i)

  German disease, (i)

  germ theory of disease, (i), (ii)

  Gerusalemme liberata (Tasso), (i)

  Gesner, Conrad, (i)

  Gettysburg, Battle of, (i), (ii)

  Gilbert, Cass, (i)

  Gilbert, W. S., (i)

  Gilbert and Sullivan, (i), (ii), (iii)

  gill slits, in human embryo, (i), (ii)

  glossopetra (tongue stones), (i), (ii), (iii)

  Gmelin, Leopold, (i)

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  gold, base metals transmuted into, (i)

  golden barrier, (i)

  Goleman, Daniel, (i)

  Gombe chimps, (i)

  Gondoliers, The (Gilbert and Sullivan), (i)

  Goodall, jane, (i)

  Gould, Jesse, (i)n

  Gould, Stephen Jay

  career of, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  childhood of, (i), (ii),
(iii)

  grandparents of, see Rosenberg, Irene; Rosenberg, Joseph A.

  published works of, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)n, (vii), (viii)n, (ix), (x)n, (xi), (xii), (xiii)n

  Goya y Lucientes, Francisco José de, (i)

  gravity, illustration of law, (i)

  Gray, Asa, (i)

  Great Asymmetry, (i), (ii)

  Greenwood, J. M., (i), (ii)

  Groening, G., (i), (ii)

  Grubrich-Simitis, Ilse, (i)

  guaiacum tree, (i), (ii)

  Gutenberg, Johannes, (i)

  Habsburg dynasty, (i), (ii)

  Haeckel, Ernst H., (i), (ii), (iii)

  falsified drawings by, (i)

  and recapitulation theory, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  haematites (bloodstones), (i), (ii)

  hagfishes, (i), (ii)

  Haldane J. B. S., (i)

  Halifax, Nova Scotia, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Handel, Georg Friedrich, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Hardy, Thomas, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Harvard Classics, (i)

  Harvard University

  Museum of Comparative Zoology at, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Nabokov at, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Hayden Planetarium, (i)

  Haydn, Joseph, (i), (ii)

  Heart of the Andes (Church), (i), (ii)

  Heaven’s Gate cult, (i)

  Hebrew language, (i)

  Heidelberg, (i)

  Henslow, J. S., (i), (ii)

  Herbert, Victor, (i), (ii)

  heredity

  of adaptive behavior, (i), (ii)

  pangenesis and, (i)

  unbroken, (i)

  Herod, (i)

  Herschel, J. F. W., (i)

  Highgate Cemetery, London, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Histoire naturelle (Buffon), (i)

  Historia plantarum universalis (Bauhin), (i)

  historical sciences, (i)

  patterns in, (i), (ii)

  “presentist” fallacy in, (i), (ii)

  speculative reconstructions in, (i)

  Hitler, Adolf, (i), (ii)

  H.M.S. Pinafore (Gilbert and Sullivan), (i), (ii), (iii)

  Hobbes, Thomas, (i), (ii)

  Hoffer, Axel and Peter T., (i)

  Holland, P. W. H., (i)

  Holmes, Sherlock (fict.), (i)

  Holocaust, (i), (ii)

  holotype specimens, (i)

  Homer, (i)

  Homo erectus, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Homo sapiens

  age of, (i)

  evolution of, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  genes of, (i)

  taxonomy of, (i), (ii), (iii)

  uniqueness of, (i), (ii)

  variation in, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  homosexuality, (i)

  Honeymooners, The (TV), (i)

  Hopewell, C., (i)

  Hot Mikado, The, (i)

  Houston, Sam, (i)

  Hox gene, (i)

  humanism

  aesthetic theory in, (i)

  expansion of, (i)

  integration as goal in, (i)

  music and, (i), (ii)

  in natural history, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  and purpose of life, (i)

  readers treated as equals in, (i)

 

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