Revising the Book of Life

Only Stephen Jay Gould would dare to rewrite Darwin. But will America's best-known scientist leave much of an imprint?

By RICHARD MONASTERSKY

Cambridge, Mass.

It's the baby-blue walls, peeling after so many decades, that he particularly cherishes. Throughout much of his career at Harvard University, Stephen Jay Gould has protected the walls of his office, in the Museum of Comparative...

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