The reaction to Gould

     I do not understand this text completely, but I think the main point is that academic ideas exist in ordinary lives. The long description about Blumenbach is the example which proves that his idea was influenced by not only scholars but also ordinaly people. But I wonder it was really necesarry to use this example in order to explain it.

     I have other doubts on several points.

     At first, I do not know what is "beauty" Elumenbach used. It is maybe one of the key words, but it is very abstract and subjective.They should have explained more about it.

     Also, it seems that Gould presented some points as natural assumptions. For example, Gould wrote "Why, then, do we credit Blumenbach rather than Linnaeus, as the founder of racial classification?"(p9-2 / l.38-39). This part is on the assumption that everyone credit Blumenbach rather than Linnaeus, but it is not always true. Gould did not consider the readers well.