Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002)
Author of Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
About the Author
Born in New York City in 1941, Stephen Jay Gould received his B.A. from Antioch College in New York in 1963 and a Ph.D. in paleontology from Columbia University in 1967. Gould spent most of his career as a professor at Harvard University and curator of invertebrate paleontology at Harvard's Museum show more of Comparative Zoology. His research was mainly in the evolution and speciation of land snails. Gould was a leading proponent of the theory of punctuated equilibrium. This theory holds that few evolutionary changes occur among organisms over long periods of time, and then a brief period of rapid changes occurs before another long, stable period of equilibrium sets in. Gould also made significant contributions to the field of evolutionary developmental biology, most notably in his work, Ontogeny and Phylogeny. An outspoken advocate of the scientific outlook, Gould had been a vigorous defender of evolution against its creation-science opponents in popular magazines focusing on science. He wrote a column for Natural History and has produced a remarkable series of books that display the excitement of science for the layperson. Among his many awards and honors, Gould won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His titles include; Ever Since Darwin, The Panda's Thumb, Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes, Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle, Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory and Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin. Stephen Jay Gould died on May 20, 2002, following his second bout with cancer. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Series
Works by Stephen Jay Gould
Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown (1997) 813 copies
The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox: Mending the Gap Between Science and the Humanities (2003) 639 copies
THE FLAMINGO'S SMILE, HEN'S TEETH AND HORSE'S TOES, THE PANDA'S THUMB. [Three Volume boxed set]. (1980) 5 copies
The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme 5 copies
La flecha y el ciclo del tiempo. Mito y metáfora en el descubrimiento del tiempo geológico (2021) 4 copies
"Curveball" 3 copies
Uomini e fossili 3 copies
The Geometer of Race 1 copy
Dinosaur Deconstruction 1 copy
Commentary: Eve and Her Tree 1 copy
Creating the Creators 1 copy
A Cerion for Christopher 1 copy
America Revisited 1 copy
Galileo Galilei 1 copy
La adaptación biológica 1 copy
Selected Writings 1 copy
various books 1 copy
Kropotkin Was No Crackpot 1 copy
Nonmoral Nature 1 copy
Lying Stones Marrakech 1 copy
The rational society: [lecture] delivered on 27 October 1970 at the London School of Economics and Political Science (1971) 1 copy
Steven Jay Gould 1 copy
Associated Works
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time (1997) — Foreword — 2,426 copies
Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series (1963) — Introduction, some editions — 754 copies
The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare (1918) — Editor, some editions — 207 copies
The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms (1881) — Foreword, some editions — 118 copies
Forgotten Heroes: Inspiring American Portraits from Our Leading Historians (1999) — Contributor — 109 copies
Athanasius Kircher: the Last Man Who Knew Everything (2004) — Contributor, some editions — 93 copies
The End Is Near: Visions of Apocalypse, Millennium and Utopia : Works from the American Visionary Art Museum (1998) — Contributor — 44 copies
Historical Atlas of the Earth: A Visual Exploration of the Earth's Physical Past (Henry Holt Reference Book) (1995) — Consultant editor — 24 copies
Life in the Universe: Scientific American : A Special Issue (Scientific American, a Special Issue) (1995) — Contributor — 20 copies
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- Canonical name
- Gould, Stephen Jay
- Legal name
- Gould, Stephen Jay
- Birthdate
- 1941-09-10
- Date of death
- 2002-05-20
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- New York, New York, USA
- Place of death
- New York, New York, USA
- Cause of death
- metastatic adenocarcinoma
- Places of residence
- New York, New York, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - Education
- Antioch College (BA|1963)
Columbia University (Ph.D|1967) - Occupations
- professor
evolutionary biologist
historian of science
paleontologist - Relationships
- Shearer, Rhonda Roland (2nd wife)
- Organizations
- Harvard University
American Museum of Natural History
Paleontological Society
Society for the Study of Evolution
Museum of Comparative Zoology - Awards and honors
- Library of Congress "Living Legends Award" for scientists and inventors"
Humanist of the Year (2001)
MacArthur Fellowship (1981)
Linnean Medal (1992)
Darwin-Wallace Medal (2008)
Paleontological Society Medal (2002) (show all 19)
Golden Plate Award (1982)
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (1983)
National Academy of Sciences (1989)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1983)
St. Louis Literary Award (1994)
Sue Tyler Friedman Medal (1989)
Charles Schuchert Award (1975)
Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science (1983, 1990)
National Book Award (1981)
National Book Critics Circle Award (1981)
In Praise of Reason Award (1986)
The Isaac Asimov Award (1995)
The Pantheon of Skeptics (2011) - Disambiguation notice
- This is the author page for Stephen Jay Gould. For the mystery writer, please see Stephen Gould. If you have books by the scientist listed as by "Stephen Gould", please consider editing the author field to include his full name. Thank you.
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