I suggest that the true Darwinian spirit might salvage our … - Stephen Jay Gould

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I suggest that the true Darwinian spirit might salvage our depleted world by denying a favorite theme of Western arrogance — that we are meant to have control and dominion over the earth and its life because we are the loftiest product of a preordained process.

Stephen Jay Gould

Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History · July 17, 1992 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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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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