Storia, natura ed evoluzionismo. Sul senso etico della de-antroppologizzazione dell'umano nel pensiero di S.J. Gould

Gould is an important paleontologist, an acute theoretician, an enthusiastic scientific historian, and a pillar of science communication. In his theoretical attitude, that can be summed up as “Darwinian pluralism” and headed for catching every evolutionistic theory’s possibility and implication, he presents a point of view that concerns the human’s “stature”. This paper would highlight the fact that to bring back human in the wider background of natural dynamics and strategies doesn’t mean to reduce him to a simple natural being among others. Man is instead brought to square his natural character with the task of taking care of his own humanity beyond any essentialist superiority’s idea. So, the man must understand himself as part of the nature, as the holder of a specific point of view and, finally and exactly for this reason, as a whole not socially divisible by race, privileges and measurable qualities’ differences.