Telmo Pievani, Università degli studi di Milano Bicocca; Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti Ten years without Stephen J. Gould: the scientific heritage ---------- Stephen J. Gould's Legacy: Nature, History, Society May 10-12, 2012 International Meeting Organized by Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti in collaboration with Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia May 20, 2012 will be the tenth anniversary of Stephen Jay Gould's death. Palaeontologist at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, eminent evolutionary biologist, science writer, science historian and opinion maker, Gould gave us an extended and revised version of the theory of evolution, his "Darwinian pluralism", which is today an excellent frame for understanding the scientific advancements in many evolutionary fields. His anticipating intuitions about the conjunction of evolution and development, the role of ecological and biogeographical factors in speciation, the need for a multi-level interpretation of the units of selection, the interplay between functional pressures and internal constraints in processes like exaptation, are fruitful current lines of experimental research today. Even his pungent and sometimes very radical controversies against the progressive representations of evolution (especially human evolution), the pan-selectionist and gene-centered view of natural history, or the adaptationist "just-so-stories", have left their mark in contemporary biology. Gould's histories of nature were explorations in the nature of history, with wider cultural and philosophical implications, like his crucial concept of contingency. In the wonderful location of "Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti" in Venice, the town of Gould's "spandrels of San Marco", an international panel of scientists and philosophers - including Gould's closest friends and colleagues like Niles Eldredge, Elisabeth Lloyd and (in video) Richard Lewontin - will discuss his evolutionary and anthropological legacy, his idea of science as a complex rational enterprise, evolving itself and immersed in human society, his proposal for a methodology in historical sciences, and his unmistakable style of writing and argumentation, overcoming the boundaries between science, literature and art. In Gould scientific research and communication of science were two fields of inquiry strictly related by the idea that science is a high expression of human curiosity and culture.

Niles Eldredge, American Museum of Natural History, New York Stephen Jay Gould in the 1960s and 1970s, and the Origin of "Punctuated Equilibria" ---------- Stephen J. Gould's Legacy: Nature, History, Society May 10-12, 2012 International Meeting Organized by Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti in collaboration with Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia May 20, 2012 will be the tenth anniversary of Stephen Jay Gould's death. Palaeontologist at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, eminent evolutionary biologist, science writer, science historian and opinion maker, Gould gave us an extended and revised version of the theory of evolution, his "Darwinian pluralism", which is today an excellent frame for understanding the scientific advancements in many evolutionary fields. His anticipating intuitions about the conjunction of evolution and development, the role of ecological and biogeographical factors in speciation, the need for a multi-level interpretation of the units of selection, the interplay between functional pressures and internal constraints in processes like exaptation, are fruitful current lines of experimental research today. Even his pungent and sometimes very radical controversies against the progressive representations of evolution (especially human evolution), the pan-selectionist and gene-centered view of natural history, or the adaptationist "just-so-stories", have left their mark in contemporary biology. Gould's histories of nature were explorations in the nature of history, with wider cultural and philosophical implications, like his crucial concept of contingency. In the wonderful location of "Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti" in Venice, the town of Gould's "spandrels of San Marco", an international panel of scientists and philosophers - including Gould's closest friends and colleagues like Niles Eldredge, Elisabeth Lloyd and (in video) Richard Lewontin - will discuss his evolutionary and anthropological legacy, his idea of science as a complex rational enterprise, evolving itself and immersed in human society, his proposal for a methodology in historical sciences, and his unmistakable style of writing and argumentation, overcoming the boundaries between science, literature and art. In Gould scientific research and communication of science were two fields of inquiry strictly related by the idea that science is a high expression of human curiosity and culture.

Alessandro Minelli, Università degli studi di Padova; Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti Individuals, hierarchies, and the levels of selection. A chapter in Gould's evolutionary theory ---------- Stephen J. Gould's Legacy: Nature, History, Society May 10-12, 2012 International Meeting Organized by Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti in collaboration with Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia May 20, 2012 will be the tenth anniversary of Stephen Jay Gould's death. Palaeontologist at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, eminent evolutionary biologist, science writer, science historian and opinion maker, Gould gave us an extended and revised version of the theory of evolution, his "Darwinian pluralism", which is today an excellent frame for understanding the scientific advancements in many evolutionary fields. His anticipating intuitions about the conjunction of evolution and development, the role of ecological and biogeographical factors in speciation, the need for a multi-level interpretation of the units of selection, the interplay between functional pressures and internal constraints in processes like exaptation, are fruitful current lines of experimental research today. Even his pungent and sometimes very radical controversies against the progressive representations of evolution (especially human evolution), the pan-selectionist and gene-centered view of natural history, or the adaptationist "just-so-stories", have left their mark in contemporary biology. Gould's histories of nature were explorations in the nature of history, with wider cultural and philosophical implications, like his crucial concept of contingency. In the wonderful location of "Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti" in Venice, the town of Gould's "spandrels of San Marco", an international panel of scientists and philosophers - including Gould's closest friends and colleagues like Niles Eldredge, Elisabeth Lloyd and (in video) Richard Lewontin - will discuss his evolutionary and anthropological legacy, his idea of science as a complex rational enterprise, evolving itself and immersed in human society, his proposal for a methodology in historical sciences, and his unmistakable style of writing and argumentation, overcoming the boundaries between science, literature and art. In Gould scientific research and communication of science were two fields of inquiry strictly related by the idea that science is a high expression of human curiosity and culture.

Elisabeth Lloyd, Indiana University Gould and adaptation: San Marco 33 years later ---------- Stephen J. Gould's Legacy: Nature, History, Society May 10-12, 2012 International Meeting Organized by Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti in collaboration with Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia May 20, 2012 will be the tenth anniversary of Stephen Jay Gould's death. Palaeontologist at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, eminent evolutionary biologist, science writer, science historian and opinion maker, Gould gave us an extended and revised version of the theory of evolution, his "Darwinian pluralism", which is today an excellent frame for understanding the scientific advancements in many evolutionary fields. His anticipating intuitions about the conjunction of evolution and development, the role of ecological and biogeographical factors in speciation, the need for a multi-level interpretation of the units of selection, the interplay between functional pressures and internal constraints in processes like exaptation, are fruitful current lines of experimental research today. Even his pungent and sometimes very radical controversies against the progressive representations of evolution (especially human evolution), the pan-selectionist and gene-centered view of natural history, or the adaptationist "just-so-stories", have left their mark in contemporary biology. Gould's histories of nature were explorations in the nature of history, with wider cultural and philosophical implications, like his crucial concept of contingency. In the wonderful location of "Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti" in Venice, the town of Gould's "spandrels of San Marco", an international panel of scientists and philosophers - including Gould's closest friends and colleagues like Niles Eldredge, Elisabeth Lloyd and (in video) Richard Lewontin - will discuss his evolutionary and anthropological legacy, his idea of science as a complex rational enterprise, evolving itself and immersed in human society, his proposal for a methodology in historical sciences, and his unmistakable style of writing and argumentation, overcoming the boundaries between science, literature and art. In Gould scientific research and communication of science were two fields of inquiry strictly related by the idea that science is a high expression of human curiosity and culture

Gerd Müller, Konrad Lorenz Institute, Vienna; Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti Beyond Spandrels: S.J. Gould, EvoDevo, and the Extended Synthesis ---------- Stephen J. Gould's Legacy: Nature, History, Society May 10-12, 2012 International Meeting Organized by Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti in collaboration with Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia May 20, 2012 will be the tenth anniversary of Stephen Jay Gould's death. Palaeontologist at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, eminent evolutionary biologist, science writer, science historian and opinion maker, Gould gave us an extended and revised version of the theory of evolution, his "Darwinian pluralism", which is today an excellent frame for understanding the scientific advancements in many evolutionary fields. His anticipating intuitions about the conjunction of evolution and development, the role of ecological and biogeographical factors in speciation, the need for a multi-level interpretation of the units of selection, the interplay between functional pressures and internal constraints in processes like exaptation, are fruitful current lines of experimental research today. Even his pungent and sometimes very radical controversies against the progressive representations of evolution (especially human evolution), the pan-selectionist and gene-centered view of natural history, or the adaptationist "just-so-stories", have left their mark in contemporary biology. Gould's histories of nature were explorations in the nature of history, with wider cultural and philosophical implications, like his crucial concept of contingency. In the wonderful location of "Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti" in Venice, the town of Gould's "spandrels of San Marco", an international panel of scientists and philosophers - including Gould's closest friends and colleagues like Niles Eldredge, Elisabeth Lloyd and (in video) Richard Lewontin - will discuss his evolutionary and anthropological legacy, his idea of science as a complex rational enterprise, evolving itself and immersed in human society, his proposal for a methodology in historical sciences, and his unmistakable style of writing and argumentation, overcoming the boundaries between science, literature and art. In Gould scientific research and communication of science were two fields of inquiry strictly related by the idea that science is a high expression of human curiosity and culture.

T. Ryan Gregory, University of Guelph A Gouldian view of the genome ---------- Stephen J. Gould's Legacy: Nature, History, Society May 10-12, 2012 International Meeting Organized by Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti in collaboration with Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia May 20, 2012 will be the tenth anniversary of Stephen Jay Gould's death. Palaeontologist at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, eminent evolutionary biologist, science writer, science historian and opinion maker, Gould gave us an extended and revised version of the theory of evolution, his "Darwinian pluralism", which is today an excellent frame for understanding the scientific advancements in many evolutionary fields. His anticipating intuitions about the conjunction of evolution and development, the role of ecological and biogeographical factors in speciation, the need for a multi-level interpretation of the units of selection, the interplay between functional pressures and internal constraints in processes like exaptation, are fruitful current lines of experimental research today. Even his pungent and sometimes very radical controversies against the progressive representations of evolution (especially human evolution), the pan-selectionist and gene-centered view of natural history, or the adaptationist "just-so-stories", have left their mark in contemporary biology. Gould's histories of nature were explorations in the nature of history, with wider cultural and philosophical implications, like his crucial concept of contingency. In the wonderful location of "Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti" in Venice, the town of Gould's "spandrels of San Marco", an international panel of scientists and philosophers - including Gould's closest friends and colleagues like Niles Eldredge, Elisabeth Lloyd and (in video) Richard Lewontin - will discuss his evolutionary and anthropological legacy, his idea of science as a complex rational enterprise, evolving itself and immersed in human society, his proposal for a methodology in historical sciences, and his unmistakable style of writing and argumentation, overcoming the boundaries between science, literature and art. In Gould scientific research and communication of science were two fields of inquiry strictly related by the idea that science is a high expression of human curiosity and culture.

Giuseppe Longo, CNRS, CREA, Ecole Polytechnique et CIRPHLES, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris Randomness increases biological organization: a mathematical understanding of Gould's critique of evolutionary progress ---------- Stephen J. Gould's Legacy: Nature, History, Society May 10-12, 2012 International Meeting Organized by Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti in collaboration with Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia May 20, 2012 will be the tenth anniversary of Stephen Jay Gould's death. Palaeontologist at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, eminent evolutionary biologist, science writer, science historian and opinion maker, Gould gave us an extended and revised version of the theory of evolution, his "Darwinian pluralism", which is today an excellent frame for understanding the scientific advancements in many evolutionary fields. His anticipating intuitions about the conjunction of evolution and development, the role of ecological and biogeographical factors in speciation, the need for a multi-level interpretation of the units of selection, the interplay between functional pressures and internal constraints in processes like exaptation, are fruitful current lines of experimental research today. Even his pungent and sometimes very radical controversies against the progressive representations of evolution (especially human evolution), the pan-selectionist and gene-centered view of natural history, or the adaptationist "just-so-stories", have left their mark in contemporary biology. Gould's histories of nature were explorations in the nature of history, with wider cultural and philosophical implications, like his crucial concept of contingency. In the wonderful location of "Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti" in Venice, the town of Gould's "spandrels of San Marco", an international panel of scientists and philosophers - including Gould's closest friends and colleagues like Niles Eldredge, Elisabeth Lloyd and (in video) Richard Lewontin - will discuss his evolutionary and anthropological legacy, his idea of science as a complex rational enterprise, evolving itself and immersed in human society, his proposal for a methodology in historical sciences, and his unmistakable style of writing and argumentation, overcoming the boundaries between science, literature and art. In Gould scientific research and communication of science were two fields of inquiry strictly related by the idea that science is a high expression of human curiosity and culture.

Marcello Buiatti, Università degli studi di Firenze Biological complexity and punctuated equilibria ---------- Stephen J. Gould's Legacy: Nature, History, Society May 10-12, 2012 International Meeting Organized by Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti in collaboration with Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia May 20, 2012 will be the tenth anniversary of Stephen Jay Gould's death. Palaeontologist at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, eminent evolutionary biologist, science writer, science historian and opinion maker, Gould gave us an extended and revised version of the theory of evolution, his "Darwinian pluralism", which is today an excellent frame for understanding the scientific advancements in many evolutionary fields. His anticipating intuitions about the conjunction of evolution and development, the role of ecological and biogeographical factors in speciation, the need for a multi-level interpretation of the units of selection, the interplay between functional pressures and internal constraints in processes like exaptation, are fruitful current lines of experimental research today. Even his pungent and sometimes very radical controversies against the progressive representations of evolution (especially human evolution), the pan-selectionist and gene-centered view of natural history, or the adaptationist "just-so-stories", have left their mark in contemporary biology. Gould's histories of nature were explorations in the nature of history, with wider cultural and philosophical implications, like his crucial concept of contingency. In the wonderful location of "Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti" in Venice, the town of Gould's "spandrels of San Marco", an international panel of scientists and philosophers - including Gould's closest friends and colleagues like Niles Eldredge, Elisabeth Lloyd and (in video) Richard Lewontin - will discuss his evolutionary and anthropological legacy, his idea of science as a complex rational enterprise, evolving itself and immersed in human society, his proposal for a methodology in historical sciences, and his unmistakable style of writing and argumentation, overcoming the boundaries between science, literature and art. In Gould scientific research and communication of science were two fields of inquiry strictly related by the idea that science is a high expression of human curiosity and culture.

Ian Tattersall, American Museum of Natural History, New York Steve Gould's intellectual legacy to anthropology ---------- Stephen J. Gould's Legacy: Nature, History, Society May 10-12, 2012 International Meeting Organized by Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti in collaboration with Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia May 20, 2012 will be the tenth anniversary of Stephen Jay Gould's death. Palaeontologist at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, eminent evolutionary biologist, science writer, science historian and opinion maker, Gould gave us an extended and revised version of the theory of evolution, his "Darwinian pluralism", which is today an excellent frame for understanding the scientific advancements in many evolutionary fields. His anticipating intuitions about the conjunction of evolution and development, the role of ecological and biogeographical factors in speciation, the need for a multi-level interpretation of the units of selection, the interplay between functional pressures and internal constraints in processes like exaptation, are fruitful current lines of experimental research today. Even his pungent and sometimes very radical controversies against the progressive representations of evolution (especially human evolution), the pan-selectionist and gene-centered view of natural history, or the adaptationist "just-so-stories", have left their mark in contemporary biology. Gould's histories of nature were explorations in the nature of history, with wider cultural and philosophical implications, like his crucial concept of contingency. In the wonderful location of "Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti" in Venice, the town of Gould's "spandrels of San Marco", an international panel of scientists and philosophers - including Gould's closest friends and colleagues like Niles Eldredge, Elisabeth Lloyd and (in video) Richard Lewontin - will discuss his evolutionary and anthropological legacy, his idea of science as a complex rational enterprise, evolving itself and immersed in human society, his proposal for a methodology in historical sciences, and his unmistakable style of writing and argumentation, overcoming the boundaries between science, literature and art. In Gould scientific research and communication of science were two fields of inquiry strictly related by the idea that science is a high expression of human curiosity and culture.

Guido Barbujani, Università degli studi di Ferrara Mismeasuring man thirty years later ---------- Stephen J. Gould's Legacy: Nature, History, Society May 10-12, 2012 International Meeting Organized by Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti in collaboration with Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia May 20, 2012 will be the tenth anniversary of Stephen Jay Gould's death. Palaeontologist at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, eminent evolutionary biologist, science writer, science historian and opinion maker, Gould gave us an extended and revised version of the theory of evolution, his "Darwinian pluralism", which is today an excellent frame for understanding the scientific advancements in many evolutionary fields. His anticipating intuitions about the conjunction of evolution and development, the role of ecological and biogeographical factors in speciation, the need for a multi-level interpretation of the units of selection, the interplay between functional pressures and internal constraints in processes like exaptation, are fruitful current lines of experimental research today. Even his pungent and sometimes very radical controversies against the progressive representations of evolution (especially human evolution), the pan-selectionist and gene-centered view of natural history, or the adaptationist "just-so-stories", have left their mark in contemporary biology. Gould's histories of nature were explorations in the nature of history, with wider cultural and philosophical implications, like his crucial concept of contingency. In the wonderful location of "Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti" in Venice, the town of Gould's "spandrels of San Marco", an international panel of scientists and philosophers - including Gould's closest friends and colleagues like Niles Eldredge, Elisabeth Lloyd and (in video) Richard Lewontin - will discuss his evolutionary and anthropological legacy, his idea of science as a complex rational enterprise, evolving itself and immersed in human society, his proposal for a methodology in historical sciences, and his unmistakable style of writing and argumentation, overcoming the boundaries between science, literature and art. In Gould scientific research and communication of science were two fields of inquiry strictly related by the idea that science is a high expression of human curiosity and culture.