Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002)

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1. Stephen Jay Gould

   Author of Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms, Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures)

2. Richard Dawkins

   Author of The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution, River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life, Climbing Mount Improbable
   All: (2 members)

3. Edward O. Wilson

   Author of Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, The Diversity of Life, The Future of Life
   All: (1 member)

4. Ernst Mayr

   Author of What Evolution Is, The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance, This Is Biology: The Science of the Living World
   All: (1 member)

5. Richard Fortey

   Author of Life: An Unauthorised Biography, Earth: An Intimate History, Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution

6. Charles Darwin

   Author of On the Origin of Species, The Voyage of the Beagle, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
   All: (3 members)

7. Daniel C. Dennett

   Author of Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, Consciousness Explained, Freedom Evolves

8. Carl Sagan

   Author of The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
   All: (2 members)

9. Steven Pinker

   Author of The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

10. Lewis Thomas

    Author of The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher, Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony, The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine-Watcher (Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Series)

11. David Quammen

    Author of The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction, Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind, The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder
    All: (1 member)

12. James Gleick

    Author of Chaos: Making a New Science, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, Isaac Newton

13. Martin Gardner

    Author of Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience, The Night Is Large: Collected Essays, 1938-1995, Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus
    All: (1 member)

14. Umberto Eco

    Author of Baudolino, Misreadings, The Search for the Perfect Language

15. Michael Shermer

    Author of Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time, How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science, Why Darwin Matters
    All: (1 member)

16. Carl Zimmer

    Author of Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea, Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain—and How It Changed the World, At the Water's Edge : Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea

17. Timothy Ferris

    Author of Coming of Age in the Milky Way, The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report, The Mind's Sky

18. Lynn Margulis

    Author of Symbiotic Planet : A New Look at Evolution (Science Masters Series), Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution, Five Kingdoms

19. Oliver Sacks

    Author of An Anthropologist on Mars, The Island of the Colorblind and Cycad Island
    All: (1 member)

20. Roger Penrose

    Author of The Emperor's New Mind, Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness