I'm a bit confused as to how Gould would intend his miltons and franlikns to cash INTO your question to the exclusion of Gould's view on geneic selectionism for Dawkins said in BUT IS IT SCIENCE eds Ruse"I agree with Maynard Smith(1969) that "The main task of any theory of evolution is to explain adaptive complexity, i.e. to explain the same set of facts which Paley used as evidence of a Creator." I suppose people like me might be labeled neo-Paleyists, or perhaps "transformed Paleyists." We concur with Paley that adaptive complexity demands a very special kind of explanation: either a Designer as Paley taught, or something such as natural selection that does the job of a designer. Indeed, adaptive complexity is probably the best diagnostic of the presence of life itself."
and yet Gould DOES NOT give GALTON's TIPPED% polygon any meat in his extension of the core Darwinian logic aka extending NS which to me he should to meet Dawkins head on without A PRIORI Prejudice. It may be merely that Gould refuses to think of Morphology as a CAUSE of constraint even in the positive sense.
I suspect however that this is a fau confusion for when ONTOGENY AND PHYLOGENY was out and being read I simple could not find that Gould *saw* Conants Eastern Herp Newt Plate in the correct colors. I guess I had agreed that you *understood* this explanation. It is true that some may not be able yet to "follow" Gould's discussion of the inverted vertebrate/invertebrate nervous system aka Geoffroy but I certainly have seen and stated on the web that books tend to make me look at skin cells as turned with respect to any nervous system picture and it is not "crazy" to which Gould could it that instance of a pargraph gainsaid and cut down on the txt. I hope this helps. Best Brad.