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  1. The History of Evolutionary Thought. Evolution and Development for the 21st Century: Stephen Jay Gould. With the fall of Ernst Haeckel’s Biogenetic Law in the 1920s, the evolutionary study of embryos receded into the intellectual backwaters for decades. Haeckel’s notion that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny was deeply flawed, but it was at ...

  2. Kurt Wise. Signature. Stephen Jay Gould ( / ɡuːld /; 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] Gould spent most of his career teaching at Harvard University and ...

  3. May 20, 2002 · May 20, 2002. Stephen Jay Gould, the evolutionary theorist at Harvard University whose research, lectures and prolific output of essays helped to reinvigorate the field of paleontology, died today ...

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  5. Mar 8, 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. He joined the faculty of Harvard University in 1967 ...

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  6. Aug 1, 2022 · Paleontologist, historian, evolutionary biologist, writer; Stephen Jay Gould sparked a revolution in how scientists view evolution. Almost exactly 50 years ago, in August 1972, a revolutionary idea was born. Despite the ongoing Watergate Scandal, the Vietnam War, and the mass movement against it, this idea was not political, but scientific.

  7. 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 thinkers, and ...

  8. The Structure of Evolutionary Theory. Stephen Jay Gould. Hardcover. eBook. ISBN 9780674006133. Publication date: 03/21/2002. The world's most revered and eloquent interpreter of evolutionary ideas offers here a work of explanatory force unprecedented in our time--a landmark publication, both for its historical sweep and for its scientific vision.

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