Samuel Willoughby’s Reviews > The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay Gould > Status Update

I have just read a series of incredible essays that critique social Darwinism. One essay draws ties between 1911 Triangle Fire, social Darwinism and the opposition of factory owners to worker rights.
I honestly believe that Gould is an underrated hero amongst other socialist leaders. If anyone was to represent evolutionary biology (or biology) in a meeting of those most important to socialism it should be Gould. RIP

I’ve just left Part 2 and have approached Part 3.
Part 2 was a genuinely entertaining adventure through different stories in science history. But Part 3 promises to be a real treat in evolutionary science and I’m already dying to get started, but alas, here comes sleep.

I’m finding immense joy in reading Gould’s essays. He is truly an admirable hero of evolutionary science. The Razumoveky Duet chapter made me feel proud to be a student of science - a quest for the people, not bound by borders and petty differences of class, sex or race. I loved Gould’s belief that we should judge “colleagues on the might of their ideas rather than the power of their positions.”