This is what ticks me off so much about him: he and his commie Harvard buddy Richard Lewontin were the ones who started the petition at Harvard about Wilson's Sociobiology. You could look it up. Science and politics do not mix (please see other posts in this thread that deal with Gould's hypocrisy). Again, when you set yourself up to be the offical arbiter of scientific information, you better be consistent and apolitical. He was neither--and certainly smart enough to know better; but, as a true lefty, it was ok for him to leave out or distrot any facts that got in the way of his agenda.