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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. [1]
- Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History Stephen Jay Gould.
- The Mismeasure of Man Stephen Jay Gould.
- The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History Stephen Jay Gould.
- Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History Stephen Jay Gould.
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Wonderful Life (book) Wonderful Life. (book) Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History is a 1989 book on the evolution of Cambrian fauna by Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. The volume made The New York Times Best Seller list, [1] was the 1991 winner of the Royal Society 's Rhone-Poulenc Prize, the American Historical ...
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Jan 1, 2006 · Stephen Jay Gould, Oliver Sacks (Foreword), Steven Rose (Editor) 4.27. 454 ratings35 reviews. "Nature is so wondrously complex and varied that almost anything possible does happen....I rejoice in [its] multifariousness and leave the chimera of certainty to politicians and preachers."—from Ever Since Darwin. Upon his death in 2002, Stephen Jay ...
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Sep 10, 2013 · Harvard’s Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941–May 20, 2002) was a man of uncommon genius and arguably our era’s greatest science essayist.In March of 2000, he took part in the annual meeting of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, themed Challenges for the New Millennium, at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
Apr 1, 2021 · Life. Stephen Jay Gould was born on 10 September 1941 in New York City. His mother, Eleanor Rosenberg, was an artist, and his father, Leonard Gould, was a court stenographer. Gould recalls visiting the American Museum of Natural History in New York with his father at the age of five and says that after seeing the skeleton of Tyrannosaurus rex ...
Jun 14, 2002 · Twenty years ago I was sitting at my desk in the Natural History Museum, London, when a colleague burst into the room and announced that Stephen Jay Gould was dead. The news had traveled around the world on the scientific grapevine; we were all devastated. It was, it turned out, untrue. Steve had been gravely ill with an abdominal mesothelioma—one of the nastiest cancers there is—but he ...
