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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Stephen_Jay_GouldStephen Jay Gould - Wikipedia

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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.

2. www.amazon.com › Wonderful-Life-Burgess-NatureWonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

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   Sep 17, 1990 · In Wonderful Life, paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould relates the impact of the scientific revision of the fossil specimens collected by Charles Walcott from the famous locality known as the Burgess Shale. The work describes how new discoveries from a reexamination of the specimens literally forced a re-vision of the way we look at the march of life.

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   Who was Stephen Jay Gould?

   • Stephen Jay Gould was a prominent 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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   What is the best book by Stephen Jay Gould?

   • Philosopher Michael Ruse wrote that, " Wonderful Life was the best book written by the late Stephen Jay Gould, paleontologist and popular science writer. It is … a thrilling story that Gould tells in a way that no one else could equal."

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   What was Gould's contribution to evolutionary biology?

   • Gould's most significant contribution to evolutionary biology was the theory of punctuated equilibrium developed with Niles Eldredge in 1972. The theory proposes that most evolution is characterized by long periods of evolutionary stability, infrequently punctuated by swift periods of branching speciation.

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   Is Stephen Jay Gould dead?

   • "Stephen Jay Gould, 60, Is Dead; Enlivened Evolutionary Theory". The New York Times. ^ a b Green, Michelle (1986). "Stephen Jay Gould: driven by a hunger to learn and to write". People 25 (June 2): 109–114. ^ Milner, Richard (1990). The Encyclopedia of Evolution. NY: Facts on File, p. 198.

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4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Wonderful_Life_(book)Wonderful Life (book) - Wikipedia

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   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 Association 's Forkosch Award, and was a ...

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   • Death Date: May 20, 2002

   • Birth Date: September 10, 1941

   • Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History.
   • The Mismeasure of Man.
   • The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History.
   • Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History.

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7. thegreatestbooks.org › authors › 5000The Greatest Books: Stephen Jay Gould

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   Stephen Jay Gould was an influential American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was known for his contributions to evolutionary theory and for his ability to communicate complex scientific ideas to a broad audience.

8. cup.columbia.edu › book › macroevolutionariesMacroevolutionaries | Columbia University Press

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   One of the twentieth century’s great paleontologists and science writers, Stephen Jay Gould was, for Bruce S. Lieberman and Niles Eldredge, also a close co... | CUP.

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   May 16, 2024 · In his books Ontogeny and Phylogeny (1977), The Mismeasure of Man (1981), Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle (1987), and Wonderful Life (1989), he traced the course and significance of various controversies in the history of evolutionary biology, intelligence testing, geology, and paleontology.