Peter Gould, ou comment devenir géographe

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Morton, Gould, and Bias: A Comment on "The Mismeasure of Science".

Stephen Jay Gould famously used the work of Samuel George Morton (1799–1851) to illustrate how unconscious racial bias could affect scientific measurement. Morton had published measurements of the average cranial capacities of different races, measurements that Gould reanalyzed in an article in Science [1] and then later in his widely read book The Mismeasure of Man [2]. During the course of th...

Review of Spatial Organization: The Geographer's View of the World by Ronald Abler, John S. Adams, and Peter Gould

Art - Gould (J)

nature neuroscience • volume 2 no 3 • march 1999 The involvement of the hippocampal formation in learning has been recognized for decades1,2, but the cellular mechanisms underlying this association remain enigmatic. The hippocampal formation produces new neurons throughout adulthood in many vertebrates, from birds to primates3–8; however, although the number of neurons produced is high, the fun...

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The methodology described in this article was developed to transcend the limitations of both approaches. Its goal is to use existing data to identify small areas with high levels of adolescent childbearing. The method is an active approach to identify what can be defined as “hot spots” for adolescent births, even when they are located in counties or communities where adolescent births are not c...