The takeaway from this story is a condemnation of US higher education tbh. Exquisitely gifted 13 year old graduates from college with a major in physics & a minor in math — wants to apply for PhD programs but his parents can’t afford it https://abc11.com/elliott-tanner-college-graduate-university-of-minnesota-physics-major/11788944/
Gould did not openly identify himself as a Marxist nor did he claim to use dialectical reasoning. Nevertheless many features of Gould’s thought are marked by an influence of Marxism and its dialectical approach.
Marxist* Biologist
also quite bizarrely close friends with Alan Dershowitz :thinking-about-it:
Not sure if Marxist is a good descriptor. From some descriptions rad lib or socdem might be more accurate
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/atc/1054.html
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I listened to this talk a while ago and he very much seems to think like one