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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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The facts of nature are what they are, but we can only view them through the spectacles of our mind. Our mind works largely by metaphor and comparison, not always (or often) by relentless logic. When we are caught in conceptual traps, the best exit is often a change in metaphor — not because the new guideline will be truer to nature (for neither the old nor the new metaphor lies “out there” in the woods), but because we need a shift to more fruitful perspectives, and metaphor is often the best agent of conceptual transition.
In his anti-Darwinian book... (and eponymously named The Neck of the Giraffe), Francis Hitching tells the story... "The need to survive by reaching ever higher for food is, like so many Darwinian explanations of its kind, little more than a post hoc speculation." Hitching is quite correct, but he rebuts a fairy story that Darwin was far too smart to tell - even though the tale later entered our high school texts as a "classic case" nonetheless.
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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.