Product Details

• Actors: Stephen Jay Gould
• Directors: Robert DiNozzi, Stephen Jay Gould
• Format: Color, Full length, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• VHS Release Date: February 1, 1995
• Run Time: 50 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 0967733006
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #397,578 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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From the Actor

Using evolutionary biology, history of science, and social history as his canvas, Gould paints the fascinating picture of how human biases (philosophical, cultural, and spiritual) have continued to resist Darwin's theory, inverting it into its own philosophical opposite. "If there's one thing we desperately want evolution to be, it's a principle that predicts progress...but it just isn't so."-- Stephen Jay Gould

Product Description

For the first time on video, Stephen Jay Gould presents his definitive treatise on Charles Darwin's unique and radical contribution to evolutionary biology- and why it has been so poorly understood. Filmed before a live audience, this program has been used in colleges, universities, and schools across the US and abroad. It is now available to the public for the first time.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very interesting and informative., February 24, 2008

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This review is from: Stephen Jay Gould : Darwin's Revolution In Thought [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I've viewed this video in a library and I really do like it and felt it gave one of the best lay explanations for evolution that I've seen. This is due, of course, to the speaker in it, Stephen Jay Gould, who was, much like Carl Sagan, a scientist who could take dry or complicated subjects and delineate them to an audience in a way that made them both easily understood and entertaining. I only wish he had attempted what Sagan did and produced a whole tv series of his views, but this video is all we have (though a whole series of books of his Natural History magazine columns are available and they are equally accessible). I just wish Stanford (where this lecture was filmed) or whoever owns the copyright would release a DVD so the general public could buy it (I don't think even libraries can get it anymore).