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The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox

Mending the Gap between Science and the Humanities

Stephen Jay Gould

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$21.50 • £17.95 • €19.50

ISBN 9780674061668

Publication Date: 10/01/2011

288 pages

6 x 9 inches

36 halftones, 4 line illustrations

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“A fitting tribute to his career, as it combines, in both style and substance, the different themes of his life’s work. Blending genuine literary talents with impeccable scientific credentials, Gould crafts an elegant entreaty for scientists and scholars to spend less time complaining about each other and more time combining their considerable resources. We need both the fox and the hedgehog in any intellectual menagerie—the persistent pluralist.”—Alan C. Hutchinson, The Globe and Mail

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On the 10th anniversary of his death, read in the Jewish Daily Forward about Gould’s legacy and the complex historical relationship between evolutionary biology and eugenics
Read about HUP’s 2011 series of Steven Jay Gould paperbacks in Harvard Magazine and, on the HUP Blog, see the full mosaic created by their covers

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