1. Stephen Jay Gould - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Jay_Gould

Stephen Jay Gould From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Stephen Jay Gould Natural History magazine Born September 10 Queens borough of New York City New York Died May 20 Nationality American Field Evolutionary biology Institutions Harvard University Stephen Jay Gould September 10 May 20 ) was an American paleontologist evolutionary biologist , and historian of science . He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation, leading many commentators to call him "America's unofficial evolutionist laureate." Gould spent most of his career teaching at Harvard University and working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York Contents Personal life As a scientist As a public figure Controversies ... edit Personal life Gould was born and raised in the Queens borough of New York City New York . His father Leonard was a court stenographer , and his mother Eleanor was an artist . When Gould was five years old, his father took him to the Hall of Dinosaurs in the American Museum of Natural History , where he first met Tyrannosaurus rex . "I had no idea there were such things—I was awestruck," Gould once recalled.

2. Powells.com Interviews - Stephen Jay Gould Stephen Jay Gould, From Brachiopods to Baseball Doug Brown, Powells.com It s hard to have a discussion of popular natural history and evolution http://www.powells.com/authors/gould.html

@import url(/css/combined_css.css); @import url(/css/sections.css); Skip navigation Browse Sections Bestsellers New Arrivals ... Kevin Young Find Books Award Winners Book Clubs Hosted Bookshelves Harry Potter ... Staff Picks Read the City Author Interviews Original Essays Fup. Store Cat. Review-a-Day ... Blog Win Free Books! Daily Dose PowellsBooks.news January 16, 2008 Archived Editions More newsletters Technica January 10, 2008 Archived Editions More newsletters PowellsBooks.kids January 23, 2008 Archived Editions More newsletters Read an original essay by Neil Swidey and save 30% on The Assist Hardcover Read an original essay by Tahmima Anam and save 30% on A Golden Age Hardcover Stephen Jay Gould, From Brachiopods to Baseball Doug Brown , Powells.com It's hard to have a discussion of popular natural history and evolution literature without mentioning Stephen Jay Gould. The Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Geology at Harvard, his essays have been collected in a number of books, including The Panda's Thumb and The Lying Stones of Marrakech . He has written more extensively about the fallacies of biological determinism in The Mismeasure of Man , early life on earth in Wonderful Life , and the myth of evolution as progress in Full House Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould List Price $15.95

3. Stephen Jay Gould - Wikiquote My introduction to Stephen Jay Gould s work came in the 1970s, when I avidly read all his articles in Natural History (as I still do today). http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_Jay_Gould

Stephen Jay Gould From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation search It has been suggested that The Structure of Evolutionary Theory be merged into this article or section. ( Discuss Stephen Jay Gould ) was an American geologist paleontologist , evolutionary biologist and popular-science author. Contents Sourced Ever Since Darwin (1977) The Panda's Thumb (1980) Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes (1983) ... edit Sourced We should therefore, with grace and optimism, embrace NOMA's tough-minded demand: Acknowledge the personal character of these human struggles about morals and meanings, and stop looking for definite answers in nature's construction. But many people cannot bear to surrender nature as a “transitional object”—a baby's warm blanket for our adult comfort. But when we do (for we must), nature can finally emerge in her true form: not as a distorted mirror of our needs, but as our most fascinating companion. Only then can we unite the patches built by our separate magisteria into a beautiful and coherent quilt called wisdom. Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life (Ballantine, 1999), p. 178

4. Edge: STEPHEN JAY GOULD STEPHEN JAY GOULD was an evolutionary biologist, a paleontologist, and a snail geneticist; professor of zoology at Harvard University; MacArthur Fellow; http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/gould.html

The Third Culture Home About Edge Features Edge Editions ... Edge Search Stephen Jay Gould STEPHEN JAY GOULD was an evolutionary biologist, a paleontologist, and a snail geneticist; professor of zoology at Harvard University; MacArthur Fellow; author of, among others, Ontogeny and Phylogeny The Mismeasure of Man The Flamingo's Smile Wonderful Life ... The Structure of Evolutionary Theory ; and The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox: Mending the Gap between Science and the Humanities Links: "The Pattern of Life's History"

5. Stephen Jay Gould Stephen Jay Gould was an American paleontologist who was born in 1941. He revised Darwin s theory of evolution, introducing his own concept of punctuated http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/people/today/gould.html

A note to our users: The site will be temporarily down for server maintenance on January 26, from 6am to 6pm MDT ( 12:00 - 24:00 UTC ) Use the Time Zone Converter to find out when this will happen in your time zone. Stephen Jay Gould Picture of Stephen Jay Gould Courtesy of Harvard University Stephen Jay Gould was an American paleontologist who was born in 1941. He revised Darwin 's theory of evolution, introducing his own concept of punctuated equilibrium. This states that evolution is not a gradual process but, rather, has static periods followed by brief bursts of change. Gould was a professor at Harvard University until he died May 20, 2002. He also wrote many books which bring the concepts of biology and evolution to the general public. Last modified June 13, 2002 by the Windows Team The source of this material is Windows to the Universe , at http://www.windows.ucar.edu/

6. Socialism Today - Stephen Jay Gould Stephen Jay Gould, who recently died of cancer, was an outstanding contributor to evolutionary theory. But more than this, he had the rare ability to http://www.socialismtoday.org/67/gould.html

Socialism Today Socialist Party magazine Home Issue 67 About Us Comment ... Search Stephen Jay Gould Stephen Jay Gould, who recently died of cancer, was an outstanding contributor to evolutionary theory. But more than this, he had the rare ability to popularise a wide range of scientific thought. PETE MASON writes. GOULD’S SUBJECTS WERE diverse: evolutionary theory, geology, biological determinism and the history of science. He campaigned against creationism and racism in scientific research. Describing himself as a ‘leftist’, he "could be seen at demonstrations and on picket lines, especially during the 1960s and 70s". (Stephen Rose, Guardian, 22 May) In the same newspaper, Steve Jones compared him to Darwin, "a working scientist", passing many uncomfortable summers "scraping away at lumps of rock". Gould’s many books, and particularly his collections of essays, hit the best-sellers lists, earning him book-jacket acclamations, such as ‘The greatest living scientist – The Sunday Times’. The US Congress named him one of America’s ‘living legends’. Yet to many scientists Gould was a misguided heretic. Occasionally demonised as a Marxist by his opponents, Gould’s theory of ‘Punctuated Equilibrium’ (written with Niles Eldredge) moved from a ‘Marxist’ curiosity to a mainstream contender for a more accurate understanding of the development of species in the thirty years since its publication in 1972.

7. The Unofficial Stephen Jay Gould Archive An extensive archive of gould s scientific and popular works. http://www.stephenjaygould.org/

Biography Bibliography Quotations Media ... Links tephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was among the best known and widely read scientists of the late 20th century. A paleontologist and educator at Harvard University, Gould made his largest contributions to science as the leading spokes-person for evolutionary theory. His monthly columns in Natural History magazine and his popular works on evolution have earned him numerous awards For more than 30 years Gould served on the faculty at Harvard, where he was Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Professor of Geology, Biology, and the History of Science, as well as curator for Invertebrate Paleontology at the institution's Museum of Comparative Zoology. On this website you will find articles by Gould and his colleagues focusing on the finer points of his work, the nature of life's evolution, and the general ontogeny of evolutionary theory.

8. Harvard Gazette: Paleontologist, Author Gould Dies At 60 stephen jay gould, Harvard s outspoken and often controversial paleontologist whose groundbreaking work on evolutionary theory coupled with his http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/05.16/99-gould.html

Search the Gazette HOME News Prev issues Contact us ... Harvard News Office Current Issue: May 20, 2002 News News, events, features Science/Research Latest scientific findings Profiles The people behind the university Community Harvard and neighbor communities Sports Scores, highlights, upcoming games On Campus Newsmakers, notes, students, police log Arts Museums, concerts, theater Calendar Two-week listing of upcoming events HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES Paleontologist, author Gould dies at 60 Stephen J. Gould. (Staff photo by Jon Chase) Gould, the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, spent his professional career at Harvard. He wrote widely on topics ranging from baseball to the Piltdown Man hoax to the Sept. 11 tragedy. He appeared on the cover of Newsweek in 1982, and colleagues called him "the bulldog of evolutionary biology" for his outspoken advocacy of his views. "I am deeply saddened to learn of the death of Stephen Jay Gould," said Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers. "The Harvard community and the world of science have lost a brilliant scholar whose research helped redefine our notion of who we are and where we came from. He was also a gifted teacher who brought important scientific ideas vividly to life for his students and for the wider public. We will miss him greatly, and we will continue to learn from his work for generations to come." "Secondly, he was the best science writer for the public when it came to explaining evolution. Steve did not try to make it simple, he tried and succeeded in explaining the complications. He made readers appreciate how messy and variable life is. Rather than being a popularizer of science, Steve always told the truth in ways people could understand, and he did it better than anyone," Lewontin added.

9. Salon: Stephen Jay Gould An interview with gould from Salonmagazine.com s archives. http://www.salon.com/weekly/interview960923.html

"Staggering our certainties" about humanity's place at the top of the heap By SCOTT ROSENBERG In the popular mind, Darwin's great discovery was that apes were our ancestors. To Stephen Jay Gould, that's not the half of it. The Darwinian ideas that people really have a hard time embracing, he maintains, are the implications of natural selection a theory that explains the development of Homo sapiens without reference to any sort of divine plan or vision of progress. Woven through much of Gould's writing, and at the heart of his new "Full House," is an insistent demand that we "cash out" the deepest implications of Darwin's insights and begin to comprehend that our species, far from being the pinnacle of some inevitable trend in nature toward greater complexity, is simply a tiny accident occurring on a minor side-branch of the evolutionary tree. In his 1991 "Wonderful Life," which is a sort of companion to "Full House," Gould used the example of the Cambrian explosion of species found in the fossils of the Burgess Shale to demonstrate that "contingency" accident, happenstance, the particular way that events unfold plays a central role in determining the fate of species. Rewind the tape of events to play evolution out once more, Gould argues, and the odds are against anything like Homo sapiens developing. We're here because we're here not because we had to be here.

10. Darwinian Fundamentalism - The New York Review Of Books By stephen jay gould. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1151

Home Your account Current issue Archives ... June 12, 1997 Darwinian Fundamentalism By Stephen Jay Gould The Origin of Species In this light, especially given history's tendency to recycle great issues, I am amused by an irony that has recently ensnared evolutionary theory. A movement of strict constructionism, a self-styled form of Darwinian fundamentalism, has risen to some prominence in a variety of fields, from the English biological heartland of John Maynard Smith to the uncompromising ideology (albeit in graceful prose) of his compatriot Richard Dawkins, to the equally narrow and more ponderous writing of the American philosopher Daniel Dennett (who entitled his latest book Darwin's Dangerous Idea Moreover, a larger group of strict constructionists are now engaged in an almost mordantly self-conscious effort to "revolutionize" the study of human behavior along a Darwinian straight and narrow under the name of "evolutionary psychology." Some of these ideas have filtered into the general press, but the uniting theme of Darwinian fundamentalism has not been adequately stressed or identified. Professionals, on the other hand, are well aware of the connections. My colleague Niles Eldredge, for example, speaks of this coordinated movement as Ultra-Darwinism in his recent book, Reinventing Darwin Amid the variety of their subject matter, the ultra-Darwinists share a conviction that natural selection regulates everything of any importance in evolution, and that adaptation emerges as a universal result and ultimate test of selection's ubiquity.

11. Stephen Jay Gould Online Archive Contains online books and a selection of essays. http://www.sjgarchive.org/

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12. Stephen Jay Gould Quotes - The Quotations Page stephen jay gould (1941 2002) US author, naturalist, paleontologist, stephen jay gould; In science, fact can only mean confirmed to such a degree http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Stephen_Jay_Gould/

Quotation Search by keyword or author: Home Weblog Quotes of the Day Motivational ... Read books online at our other site: The Literature Page Quotations by Author Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002) [more author details] Showing quotations 1 to 4 of 4 total Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense. Stephen Jay Gould In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. Stephen Jay Gould - More quotations on: [ Science The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question. Stephen Jay Gould - More quotations on: [ Questioning The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos. Stephen Jay Gould - More quotations on: [ Science Revolution 2 Quotations in other collections Search for Stephen Jay Gould at Amazon.com

13. Presidential Lectures: Stephen Jay Gould: Introduction Includes biographical and bibliographical information, excerpts of various writings, reviews of gould s books, links to offsite interviews with gould, http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/gould/

Photo from: University of Michigan Windows to the Universe Perhaps more than any other contemporary American scientist Stephen Jay Gould has presented the modes, implications, benefits, and shortcomings of science to a literate public. As an inventive and productive scholar he has shaped and participated in crucial debates of the biological and geological sciences, particularly with regard to the theory of evolution, the interpretation of fossil evidence, and the meaning of diversity and change in biology. As the readership for his nearly twenty books and hundreds of essays, reviews, and articles has grown he has become one of the most popular and well-known writers and lecturers on scientific topics. He has distinguished himself by elaborating his critique of contemporary evolutionary theory via an eclectic range of discourse, deriving inspiration from his personal reflections across an astonishing array of historical and humanistic disciplines, popular culture, and sports. Gould's empirical field studies have concentrated on fossil mollusks and snails found in Bermuda. His first major monographic work, Ontogeny and Phylogeny (1977), treated the theory of recapitulation in evolutionary biology. His second

14. Stephen Jay Gould, 60, Is Dead; Enlivened Evolutionary Theory - New York Times stephen jay gould, the evolutionary theorist at Harvard University whose research, lectures and prolific output of essays helped to reinvigorate the field http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F06E1D91238F932A15756C0A9649C8B6

15. Evolution: The Pleasures Of Pluralism stephen jay gould. New York Review of Books, June 26, 1997. ¶1 Charles Darwin began the last paragraph of The Origin of Species (1859) with a famous http://cogweb.ucla.edu/Debate/Gould.html

Evolution: The Pleasures of Pluralism STEPHEN JAY GOULD New York Review of Books , June 26, 1997 The Origin of Species (1859) with a famous metaphor about life's diversity and ecological complexity: It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. He then begins the final sentence of the book with an equally famous statement: "There is grandeur in this view of life...." ¶2 For Darwin, as for any scientist, a kind of ultimate satisfaction (Darwin's "grandeur") must reside in the prospect that so much variety and complexity might be generated from natural regularitiesthe "laws acting around us"accessible to our intellect and empirical probing. But what is the proper relationship between underlying laws and explicit results? The "fundamentalists" among evolutionary theorists revel in the belief that one overarching lawDarwin's central principle of natural selectioncan render the full complexity of outcomes (by working in conjunction with auxiliary principles, like sexual reproduction, that enhance its rate and power). ¶3 The "pluralists," on the other handa long line of thinkers including Darwin himself, however ironic this may seem since the fundamentalists use the cloak of his name for their distortion of his positionaccept natural selection as a paramount principle (truly

16. Stephen Jay Gould Books (book Reviews) Reviews of Bully for Brontosaurus, Dinosaur in a Haystack, Ontogeny and Phylogeny, Time s Arrow, Time s Cycle and Wonderful Life. http://dannyreviews.com/a/Stephen_Jay_Gould.html

Danny Yee's Book Reviews Subjects Titles Authors ... Latest Stephen Jay Gould Book Reviews Bully for Brontosaurus Further Reflections in Natural History Dinosaur in a Haystack - his seventh volume of essays; still getting better! Ontogeny and Phylogeny - the history of recapitulation; developmental timing and evolution Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time Wonderful Life The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History See also my review of The Dynamics of Evolution: The Punctuated Equilibrium Debate in the Natural and Social Sciences , which contains one paper by Gould and others which mention him. And I comment on Daniel Dennett's attack on Gould in my review of Darwin's Dangerous Idea Related authors: Richard Lewontin and Steven Rose Subjects Titles Authors ... Book Reviews by Danny Yee

17. Stephen Jay Gould America s premier science writer talks about the battles over evolution, the importance of dinosaur lunch boxes, and why no one s likely to top Ty Cobb s http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/1997/01/outspoken.html

HOME RECENT POLITICS BLOGS ... RSS MOTHER JONES BY E-MAIL Stephen Jay Gould Commentary: America's premier science writer talks about the battles over evolution, the importance of dinosaur lunch boxes, and why no one's likely to top Ty Cobb's batting average. By Michael Krasny January/February 1997 Issue TOOLS E-mail article Print article document.write("Digg") document.write("del.icio.us") document.write("Reddit") document.write("Yahoo MyWeb") BACKTALK E-mail the editor document.write("StumbleUpon") document.write("Newsvine") document.write("Google") South Carolina's Lasting Impact What's Next for (Bill) Clinton and the Anti-Obama Attack Machine? Obama Wins South Carolina; Plus, Bill's Jesse Jackson Comparison Exit Polls in South Carolina Point to Importance of Economy, Dirty Politics ... Dumps on Giuliani in McCain Endorsement W ith more than 15 books in print, including Wonderful Life and The Mismeasure of Man , Stephen Jay Gould has been called the dean of popular science writers. A professor of geology and zoology at Harvard University, Gould is best known for his writings on dinosaurs and his talent for explaining evolutionary science in lay terms. In his latest book

18. BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Acclaimed Science Writer Dies stephen jay gould, one of the world s bestknown biologists and popular science writers, dies at the age of 60. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1999341.stm

CATEGORIES TV RADIO COMMUNICATE ... INDEX SEARCH You are in: Science/Nature News Front Page World UK ... Programmes SERVICES Daily E-mail News Ticker Mobile/PDAs Text Only ... Help EDITIONS Change to World Tuesday, 21 May, 2002, 01:35 GMT 02:35 UK Acclaimed science writer dies Gould had been a Harvard professor since the age of 26 Stephen Jay Gould, one of the world's best-known palaeontologists and science writers, has died at the age of 60. He died of cancer at his home in New York, according to his assistant Stephanie Schur. A Harvard professor since the age of 26, Gould was also a best-selling author known for his engaging and often witty style of science writing. Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors Stephen Jay Gould He sought to make complex debates about geology, palaeontology and evolutionary biology accessible to the general public. Some of his best-known works are Ever Since Darwin, The Panda's Thumb and The Mismeasure Of Man. He also championed the teaching of evolutionary science in American schools, despite opposition from creationist lobby groups.

19. In Memoriam: Stephen Jay Gould To paraphrase Tom Lehrer, when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for twenty years. It s lives like his that remind you how little you ve accomplished. http://www.mondaymemo.net/020603feature.htm

Click Here to Ask Wally A Question Subscribe to Wally's Monday Memo ... Get Info on Wally's Search the Site Using Keywords In Memoriam: Stephen Jay Gould To paraphrase Tom Lehrer, when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for twenty years. It's lives like his that remind you how little you've accomplished. Another one of those lives belonged to Stephen Jay Gould who died this past May 20 at the age of 60. Dr. Gould was a scientist whose interest in the profession was sparked by visits to the American Museum of Natural History. When I was a boy growing up in New York City the Museum was one of my favorite haunts. Like many other boys and girls, I was drawn to the Tyrannosaurus skeleton that towered over us. Like thousands of others, I was inspired by that exhibit to decide to become a scientist and study the fossils that had yielded knowledge of dinosaurs and life in prehistoric times. I never did that. Very few of us actually became the scientists we dreamed of being. Stephen Jay Gould was one who did. He graduated from Jamaica High School in New York and went off to Ohio to Antioch College for his Bachelor's Degree. In 1967 he received his Ph.D. from Columbia and went immediately to Harvard where he has been on the faculty ever since. At the time of his death he was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard and the Astor Visiting Research Professor of Biology at New York University.

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