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Stephen Jay Gould (/ ɡ uː l d /; 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.
May 20, 2002 · Stephen Jay Gould, the evolutionary theorist at Harvard University who helped to reinvigorate the field of paleontology, died today. He was 60 years old.
May 16, 2024 · Stephen Jay Gould (born September 10, 1941, New York, New York, U.S.—died May 20, 2002, New York) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and science writer. Gould graduated from Antioch College in 1963 and received a Ph.D. in paleontology at Columbia University in 1967.
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May 23, 2002 · Stephen Jay Gould, Harvards outspoken and often controversial paleontologist whose groundbreaking work on evolutionary theory - coupled with his award-winning writings - brought an expanded world of science to thousands of readers, died Monday morning (May 20) in Manhattan of metastasized lung cancer. He was 60.
Jun 13, 2002 · Stephen Jay Gould, the world's most renowned palaeontologist, died in New York on 20 May. His death robs the fields of palaeontology and evolution of one of their most provocative...
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May 21, 2002 · Stephen Jay Gould, perhaps the world's best-known evolutionary biologist, died yesterday in Manhattan, of cancer. He was 60. Gould helped shape modern paleontology and evolutionary biology and through his prolific writing served as evolution's foremost ambassador to the public.
More than anyone else, the Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould (left) drew attention back to embryos as evolutionary time capsules. In his landmark 1977 book Ontogeny and Phylogeny, Gould documented the history of scientific research that had led to so much confusion.
