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The book is dedicated to two colleagues with whom Gould co-authored notable papers, Niles Eldredge and Elisabeth Vrba, but in spirit the dedication celebrates not two people but three--"the Three Musketeers/Prevailing with panache," the third musketeer being Gould himself. What sort of person writes a gigantic book, filled with history and biology and cultural arcana, staking his personal claim to be the Second Coming of Charles Darwin, and then congratulates himself in the dedication? Well, there is no such "sort" of person. Stephen Jay Gould was like nobody else. "The Man Who Knew Too Much: Stephen Jay Gould's Opus Posthumous", by David Quammen, Harper's, June 2003.
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