El mundo está repleto de señales que no percibimos. Las criaturas diminutas viven en un mundo diferente de fuerzas poco familiares. Muchos animales “… - Stephen Jay Gould
" "El mundo está repleto de señales que no percibimos. Las criaturas diminutas viven en un mundo diferente de fuerzas poco familiares. Muchos animales “de nuestra escala exceden en mucho el alcance de nuestra percepción de sensaciones familiares. Los murciélagos esquivan los obstáculos haciendo rebotar en ellos ondas sonoras de frecuencia que yo no alcanzo a oír, aunque algunas personas sí pueden hacerlo. Muchos insectos ven el ultravioleta y siguen las invisibles «guías» del néctar de las flores hasta lo que para ellos es una fuente de alimentos y de polen que acarrearán hasta la siguiente flor para su fecundación (las flores crean estas trazas orientadoras de color en su propio beneficio, no en el de los insectos).
¡Qué seres tan poco perceptivos somos! Rodeados de tantas cosas fascinantes y reales que no vemos (oímos, olemos, tocamos, saboreamos) en la naturaleza, y, no obstante, tan crédulos y predispuestos a la aceptación de nuevos poderes que confundimos los trucos de magos mediocres con percepciones de un mundo psíquico más allá del nuestro. Lo paranormal puede ser una fantasía; desde luego es un refugio para muchos charlatanes. Pero los poderes de percepción «parahumana» están a nuestro alrededor en las aves, las abejas y las bacterias.
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About Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American geologist, paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and popular-science author, who spent most of his career teaching at Harvard University and working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He was one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation.
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I... praise the newly opened halls of fossil mammals at the . ...teaching us about evolutionary trees by organizing the entire hall as a central trunk and set of branches... placing our brains in our feet and letting us learn by walking. ...the chosen geometry of evolutionary organization... violates the traditional picture of life's history, thus illustrating... an important principle in the history of science: the central role of pictures, graphs, and other forms of visual representation in channeling and constraining our thought. ...Words are an evolutionary afterthought. ...My colleagues have actually done it. ...They have ordered all the fossils into an unconventional iconographic tree that fractures the bias of progress. ...so that we can preambulate along the tree of life and absorb the new scheme viscerally by walking... They have taken Colbert's radical idea and arranged all the fossils by their branching order, not their later "success" or "advancement." Groups that branch early appear early in the hall... Sea cows and elephants are at the end of the hall, horses in the middle, and primates near the beginning.
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Elitism is repulsive when based upon external and artificial limitations like race, gender, or social class. Repulsive and utterly false—for that spark of genius is randomly distributed across all cruel barriers of our social prejudice. We therefore must grant access—and encouragement—to everyone; and must be increasingly vigilant, and tirelessly attentive, in providing such opportunities to all children. We will have no justice until this kind of equality can be attained. But if only a small minority respond, and these are our best and brightest of all races, classes, and genders, shall we deny them the pinnacle of their soul's striving because all their colleagues prefer passivity and flashing lights? Let them lift their eyes to hills of books, and at least a few museums that display the full magic of nature's variety. What is wrong with this truly democratic form of elitism?
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