Re: disparaging Gould

mark@unicorn.com
Tue, 26 Jan 1999 03:25:21 -0800 (PST)

Damien Broderick [damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au] wrote:
>I've seen this cited a few times as though it proved something. Do we have
>any reason to suppose Paul Krugman (a biologist I'm unfamiliar with) knows
>what he's talking about in this respect?

There's a fairly long article disparaging Gould at:

http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/users/steen/Debate/CEP_Gould.html

with comments from biologists I have heard of. Personally I've never met a biologist who had anything much good to say about him, but maybe they're wrong.

Mark