Staggering our certainties about humanity's place at the top of the heap By SCOTT ROSENBERG In the popular mind, Darwin's great discovery was that apes were our ancestors. To Stephen Jay Gould, that's not the half of it. The Darwinian ideas that people really have a hard time embracing, he maintains, are the implications of natural selection -- a theory that explains the development of Homo ...

SPINNING EVOLUTION November 26, 1996 David Gergen, editor-at-large of U.S. News & World Report, engages Stephen Jay Gould, Professor of Zoology and Geology at Harvard University, author of Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin. Browse the Online NewsHour's science coverage or Gergen Dialogues. Gould's final essay for Natural History of a twenty-seven-year series. DAVID ...