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Stephen Jay Gould

Born

in New York City, New York, The United States

September 10, 1941

Died

May 20, 2002

Genre

Science, Biology, Evolution

Influences

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Stephen Jay Gould was a prominent 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. Gould spent most of his career teaching at Harvard University and working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

Most of Gould's empirical research was on land snails. Gould helped develop the theory of punctuated equilibrium, in which evolutionary stability is marked by instances of rapid change. He contributed to evolutionary developmental biology. In evolutionary theory, he opposed strict selectionism, sociobiology as applied to humans, and evolutionary psychology. He campaigned against creationism and proposed that ...more

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Stephen Jay Gould’s books

Average rating: 4.07 · 81,506 ratings · 3,690 reviews · 190 distinct works • Similar authors

	Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History 4.14 avg rating — 9,932 ratings — published 1989 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mismeasure of Man 4.05 avg rating — 8,961 ratings — published 1982 — 62 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History 4.12 avg rating — 6,745 ratings — published 1980 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History 4.14 avg rating — 3,476 ratings — published 1977 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History 4.17 avg rating — 3,080 ratings — published 1991 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dinosaur in a Haystack 4.11 avg rating — 2,488 ratings — published 1995 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History 4.18 avg rating — 2,377 ratings — published 1985 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History 4.11 avg rating — 2,179 ratings — published 1983 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin 3.96 avg rating — 2,160 ratings — published 1996 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Structure of Evolutionary Theory 4.05 avg rating — 1,295 ratings — published 2002 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Stephen Jay Gould

Reflections in Natural History (9 books)
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“Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.”
― Stephen Jay Gould

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“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
― Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

tags: opportunity

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“We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.”
― Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man

tags: fear, hesitation, hope, life, tragedy

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Carl Sagan

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Richard Feynman

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Stephen Hawking

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Edward O. Wilson

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Richard Dawkins

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Michio Kaku

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Carl Zimmer

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David Attenborough

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S. Hawking (write-in)

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Stephen Jay Gould

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