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Stephen Jay Gould : Darwin's Revolution In Thought [VHS]

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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).