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| | Remembering Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Gould was born on Sept. 10, 1941, in Queens, the son of Leonard Gould, a court stenographer, and Eleanor Gould, an artist and entrepreneur. |
 | | Gould is survived by his wife; his mother; his two sons from a previous marriage, Jesse Gould of Cambridge, Mass., and Ethan Gould of Boston; his stepson, Jade Allen of Gainesville, Fla.; and his stepdaughter, London Allen of Manhattan. |
 | | Gould challenged this view, arguing in his most notorious essay that much of life has no function, no purpose, and is at best a by-product of other forces, as are the functionless areas at the tops of columns in medieval churches"spandrels" that simply are, without intent or end. |
| www.stephenjaygould.org /inremembrance.html (19052 words) |
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