Evolution & US NEWS & REPORT US NEWS & WORLD REPORT devotes this week's cover story to evolution. Laudable. But check this quote out:

The "modern synthesis" of genetics and evolutionary theory in the 1940s began to fill that gap. But until recently, much of evolution still felt to nonscientists like abstract theory, often presented in ponderous tomes like paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould's 1,464-page Structure of Evolutionary Theory, published shortly before his death this spring. As theorists argued over arcane points and creationists stressed uncertainties to challenge evolution's very reality, many people were left confused, unsure what to believe.

So it goes from the dominant paradigm of modern evolutionary biology, and uses the magnum opus of the fashionable non-cretinous dissent as an example of an evolutionary tome. To those in the know-using Gould's book as an example of a book about evolution is no problem-we know that his was a minority position. On the other hand, lay persons could make the mistake (as they always do when Gould is brought up) that he is part of the mainstream and a culmination of the modern synthesis.