selection ♪ ♪ yes, sir ♪ i'm the guy who found natural selection ♪ ♪ goodnight, folks ♪ and goodnight steven j. gould >> thank you. thank you for coming. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. oh, isn't that sweet. >> richard milner is an anthropology associate at the american museum of natural history. and a contributing editor at natural history magazine. he's the author of the "encyclopedia of evolution." for more information visit darwinuniverse.org. >> sarah palin signs copies of her book "going rogue: an american life" at a bookstore in cincinnati ohio. before governor's palin's remarks book tv talks with a coordinator of the event. it's about 40 minutes. >> you have line tickets. you've got your book. you've got your receipt. okay. fair enough. [inaudible] >> yeah, there's a bunch of different letters. roughly about 26. different letters. and then there's a small vice president group. -- vip group. and so when we let you in, at 10:00 we're going to close the store to people without the line letters. so you're going to be welcome to, you know, shop the store we're going to line people up by groups

i'm dino and fossil face was my friend steven j. gould and we grew up together in queens.s ago, you know, very tragic. but he was a great friend to me. and great influence. and we used to go to the american museum of natural history together, bronx zoo. if i could interrupt myself there was a story about the scopes trial and i forgot and i just want to throw that in. 'cause i love it so much. you know, brian died right after the trial. some said after a broken heart because his beliefs were so mersly attacked by darrow. darrow said, i don't think if anything to heaven or hell. after 30 years as a trial lawyer, i have so many good friend in both places. [laughter] >> and there's a little poem about that that i like to quote, too, from darwin's nemesis, samuel butler, who was a great writer. and he wrote a poem that i thought connected him very well with darwin. it seems nobody had noticed this. it was called "life after death" and what he wrote was this, a sonnet. we shall not argue saying twas was thus or thus. our arguments hold drift. we shall forget who's right, who's w