feeling sad

[davewitley]

Amy wrote:

> One of my favorite writers died yesterday:  Stephen Jay Gould

Oh.  I really like his books, though I have only read a couple.

He helped me understand what the adaptationist controversy is about 
(it matters, if you care when scientists allege, for example, that 
women are biologically adapted to stay at home while men aren't), as 
well as why my kids' dinosaur books didn't have the Brontosaurus in 
them, whereas mine did.

David