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May 3, 2022 · Stephen Jay Gould 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. Gould spent most of his career teaching at Harvard University and working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
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Early life. Stephen Jay Gould was born on September 10, 1941, in New York City, the son of Leonard and Eleanor (Rosenberg) Gould. His father was a court reporter and part-time, unpaid naturalist (student of nature). Leonard Gould was a self-taught man who took his son to the American Museum of Natural History when the boy was five years old.
May 16, 2017 · Lived 1941 – 2002. Stephen Jay Gould is best known for the theory of punctuated equilibrium, which proposes that evolution of species is not a slow, gradual process of change, but in fact consists of long periods of stability broken by shorter periods of rapid change. Gould was an award-winning book author of extraordinary fecundity.
Jack Sepkoski. Kurt Wise. Signature. Stephen Jay Gould (/ ɡuːld / GOOLD; September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was one of the most influential and widely read authors of popular science of his generation. [1] Gould spent most of his career teaching at Harvard ...
Feb 21, 2019 · In 2002, cancer returned, and this time stared him down. Stephen Jay Gould died on May 20, 2002, a profound loss to Harvard and the world at large. He is survived by Jesse and Ethan Gould, children by his first marriage to the former Deborah Lee, and by his second wife, Rhonda Roland Shearer. Respectfully submitted, Richard Bambach. Raymond Siever
May 20, 2002 · Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) 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. He spent most of his career teaching at Harvard University and writing for Natural History, a publication ...
Stephen Jay Gould, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Geology at Harvard University, Curator for Invertebrate Palaeontology at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology and Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at New York University, died in May 2002 after a 20-year battle with cancer. Born in Queens, New York, Gould (he always said) knew he wanted to be a palaeontologist when his father ...
