----- Original Message ----- From: <RangerCat67 at aol.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 6:15 PM Subject: A fine obituary from the Times of London
> Reading this just made me detest his critics even more. Maybe when Mickey
> Kaus stops jerking off over Robert Wright's latest he'll have something
else
> inane to say about the scientist he dismissed as a "poseur" and a relic of
> the "paleoleft."
>
> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-303790,00.html
There's still considerable debate as to whether Gould's main "contribution" (i.e. punctuated equilibrium) to the field of evolutionary theory has any merit.
-- Luke