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	Stephen Jay Gould - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gould's interpretation of the Cambrian Burgess Shale fossils in his book Wonderful Life was criticized by Simon Conway Morris in his 1998 book The Crucible Of Creation.
		Gould was a passionate advocate of evolutionary theory and wrote prolifically on the subject, trying to communicate his understanding of contemporary evolutionary theories to a wide audience.
		Gould was also the author of The Mismeasure of Man, a study of the history of psychometrics and intelligence testing as a form of scientific racism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stephen_Jay_Gould (2801 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Archive Search
		Profesor Stephen Jay Gould, who has died of cancer aged 60, was an unlikely figure to have been canonised in his lifetime by the US Congress, which named him as one of America's "living legends".
		Gould's critique of the pseudoscience of claims concerning the inheritance of intelligence, developed in one of his best-known books, The Mismeasure Of Man (1981), became a major source for anti-racist campaigners.
		But Gould was no mere word-spinner; as a major public intellectual and powerful public speaker, he could be seen at demonstrations and on picket lines, especially during the 1960s and 70s.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4418543,00.html (1780 words)

	Stephen Jay Gould - Wikiquote
		Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002) was an American geologist, paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and popular-science author.
		I first met Stephen Jay Gould in the sixth grade in Queens, New York, when we were the only two geeks in the school interested in natural history and particularly in dinosaurs—decades before the advent of worldwide dinomania.
		Oliver Sacks, "This view of Stephen Jay Gould" Natural History 108 (Nov. 1999): 55-56.
	en.wikiquote.org /wiki/Stephen_Jay_Gould (12894 words)

	Presidential Lectures: Stephen Jay Gould: Introduction
		Gould's critique of central concepts of the Darwinian paradigm has been founded on the notion of "punctuated equilibria" and his assertion of the importance of historical contingency and other factors in evolution besides the mechanism of adaptation to the external environment.
		Gould considers the dramatic implications for this interpretation in the context of his historical critique of the gradualist model of evolution.
		Gould's involvement in public and at times vituperative public debates has had little negative impact on either his popularity as a writer or his prominence in the American scientific community.
	prelectur.stanford.edu /lecturers/gould (1858 words)

	Stephen Jay Gould
		That Stephen Jay Gould died just as his magnum opus appeared in print would seem to confirm (in a poetic way he would have liked, had someone else died) one of his most dearly-held axioms: that evolutionary forces such as natural selection are random.
		His essays in the magazine Natural History - 300 in all, representing 25 years of unrelenting verbosity, nearly all collected in book form - are among the finest achievements of their kind available in English.
		Finally, Gould formulated the controversial idea of "species selection"- the concept that evolution acts not just on the individual organism, but on wider levels as well.
	www.goodbyemag.com /apr02/gould.html (1962 words)

	Stephen Jay Gould * September 10, 1941- May 20, 2002
		Stephen Jay Gould was born September 10, 1941, in New York City; received a degree in geology from Antioch College in 1963 earned a PhD in paleontology from Columbia University in 1967; and went on to become one of the most well-known and widely read scientists of recent decades.
		In later years Gould was an active professor, teaching at New York University and Harvard in subjects including Zoology, Geology, Biology and History of Science.
		Gould was a champion for teaching evolutionary science in school curricula, arguing that creationism was not an adequate alternative.
	www.americanhumanist.org /press/sjgould.html (295 words)

	Socialism Today - Stephen Jay Gould
		In An Urchin in the Storm, a collection of book reviews published in the New York Review of Books, Gould writes: "Hegelians and Marxists have long advocated the ‘transformation of quantity into quality’ as a basic statement about the nature of change.
		Gould points out that all he has done is recognise that "If evolution almost always occurs by rapid speciation in small, peripheral isolates — rather than by slow change in large central populations — then during [a large central population’s] recorded history in the fossil record, we should expect no major change".
		GOULD’S SUBJECTS WERE diverse: evolutionary theory, geology, biological determinism and the history of science.
	www.socialismtoday.org /67/gould.html (1860 words)

	The apotheosis of Stephen Jay Gould by Paul R. Gross
		Gould proclaims his monstrous book to be part of a Hegelian dialectic, in which traditional Darwinism (the Modern Synthesis) has become the thesis, with Gould’s own ideas as antithesis, and a future synthesis waiting to be born.
		To people outside the field, Stephen Jay Gould was the answer: a uniquely articulate scientist who spoke for fairness and decency, who fought dangerous denizens of society such as creationists, racists, economic oppressors, and who defeated them with science.
		The opening broadside was his 1981 book, The Mismeasure of Man.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/21/oct02/gould.htm (2102 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Paleontologist, author Gould dies at 60
		Stephen Jay Gould, Harvard's 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.
		Gould's most recent book, "The Structure of Evolutionary Theory" (2002), is a 1,433-page opus that took him more than 20 years to complete.
		Gould is survived by his second wife, Rhonda Roland Shearer, and by two children from his first marriage, Jesse and Ethan.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2002/05.16/99-gould.html (1316 words)

	Salon: Stephen Jay Gould
		To Stephen Jay Gould, that's not the half of it.
		Gould takes up a series of apparently unrelated and seemingly abstruse questions -- from the disappearance of the.400 batting average in recent decades to the likelihood of his own surviving an episode of stomach cancer -- and weaves them into an impassioned critique of the progressive view of evolution.
		On Gould's graph of the distribution of complexity among life forms (see illustration below), humanity exists at "the right tail," not the top of the heap.
	www.salon.com /weekly/interview960923.html (464 words)

	A scientist for the rest of us Salon.com
		Stephen Jay Gould, who died on Monday, belonged to no particular scientific sect and founded none.
		What made Gould unique, both as a scientist and as a popularizer of science, was that he had a historian's mind and not an engineer's.
		Species, Gould believed, have an existence of their own, which cannot be understood or calculated solely by looking at their genes.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/feature/2002/05/24/gould/index.html (927 words)

	STEPHEN JAY GOULD
		And yes, Gould’s membership among the “arrogant literati” is assured by this book: the writing is sometimes so verbose, convoluted, and digressive that sentences have to be re-read in order to understand their content (or lack thereof).
		In the introductory chapter, Gould uses an illustration of a fossil coral (p.18) to symbolize and introduce the interwoven themes of the book, themes that have pre-occupied his professional thinking for some 30 years.
		The first section of the book, some 400 pages, provides historical background to these ideas---how Darwin formulated and documented them, the influence of predecessors and contemporaries on his thinking, and his influence on that of his intellectual successors.
	www.hbes.com /HBES/zimmerman-rev.htm (2747 words)

	A scientist of the people
		BIOLOGIST STEPHEN Jay Gould died of cancer last month at the age of 60.
		Gould continued this critique in his award-winning 1981 book, The Mismeasure of Man, one of the best arguments against scientific racism and the idea that intelligence is genetically fixed.
		Gould’s parents were New York leftists, and he once boasted that he had "learned his Marxism, literally at my daddy’s knee." More recently, Gould added that his politics were "very different" from his father’s, perhaps indicating his own rejection of Stalinism.
	www.socialistworker.org /2002-1/410/410_08_StephenJayGould.shtml (1286 words)

	The Third Culture - Chapter 2
		STEPHEN JAY GOULD is an evolutionary biologist, a paleontologist, and a snail geneticist; professor of zoology at Harvard University; MacArthur Fellow; author of, among others, Ontogeny and Phylogeny (1977), The Mismeasure of Man (1981), The Flamingo's Smile (1985), Wonderful Life (1989), Bully for Brontosaurus (1992), Dinosaur in a Haystack (1996), and Full House (1996).
		There may be a few scientists out there who are as good as Steve Gould, but there are just damn few who are good as he is at writing for a great range of readers.
		Stephen believes that biology is a historical science, and natural selection is the final arbiter of what survives and what does not.
	www.edge.org /documents/ThirdCulture/i-Ch.2.html (7619 words)

	The Unofficial Stephen Jay Gould Archive
		His monthly columns in Natural History magazine and his popular works on evolution have earned him numerous awards and one of the largest readerships in the popular-science genre — penning altogether over twenty successful books throughout his career.
		tephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was among the best known and widely read scientists of the late 20th century.
		For more than 30 years Gould served on the faculty at Harvard, where he was Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Professor of Geology, Biology, and the History of Science, as well as curator for Invertebrate Paleontology at the institution's Museum of Comparative Zoology.
	www.stephenjaygould.org (198 words)

	Online NewsHour: Conversation with Stephen Jay Gould -- November 26, 1996
		STEPHEN JAY GOULD: That’s how we always draw the history of evolution, from amoeba to human, or from crouch chimpanzee to upright white male in a business suit, thereby encoding other biases of that culture into the process, but evolution isn’t that.
		STEPHEN JAY GOULD: It’s like flipping six heads in a row because he staggers five feet, but his movement is entirely random.
		STEPHEN JAY GOULD, Author, Full House: The conventional view is more a result of what western culture makes us want to think and what actually happened in the history of life.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/gergen/november96/gould.htm (1805 words)

	Biography of Stephen Jay Gould
		In particular, Gould respected religions that understood “the natural world does not lie” and that readjusted their teaching when an interpretation of Scripture proved inconsistent with “a well-validated scientific result.” “True science and religion are not in conflict,” Gould stated.
		Gould described himself as “an agnostic.&; His understanding of science convinced him that nature “greets us with sublime indifference and no preference for accommodating our yearnings.” On the subject of a Creator, he seemed to share
		Religion and science can, each in their own way, “enrich our practical and ethical lives.” Just as science is of no help in answering the question of how we ought to live, Gould insisted, religion tells us nothing about the laws of nature.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/gouldsj.html (1803 words)

	Stephen Jay Gould's Battle Against Racism
		Gould said the book presented an ''apocalyptic vision of a society with a growing underclass permanently mired in the inevitable sloth of their low IQs.
		Gould said the book was ''a manifesto of conservative ideology, and its sorry and biased treatment of data records the primary purpose - advocacy above all.
		His fight not just for his own theories of punctuated equilibrium, but for equilibrium in science itself was Gould's gift to us.
	www.commondreams.org /views02/0529-01.htm (821 words)

	Stephen Jay Gould, R.I.P. by Steve Sailer for National Review; obituary, Marxist, IQ, punctuated equilibria, Simpsons, Ken Burns, cancer, sociobiology, Edward. O. Wilson, evolutionary psychology,
		Gould's most famous and influential book was The Mismeasure of Man, which exemplified his trademark combination of antiquarianism and guilt by association in the service of character assassination.
		Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, the literary world's favorite scientist, has died of lung cancer at the age of 60.
		This was hardly an original concept (many of his detractors among hard scientists called it "evolution by jerks"), but Gould's vast talent for PR served a useful purpose in reminding us that evolution can sometimes occur at nearly the speed of revolution.
	www.isteve.com /2002_Stephen_Jay_Gould_RIP.htm (737 words)

	stephen jay gould
		Gould authored some 20 books, most of them best sellers.
		Gould did not shy away from citing with enthusiasm and agreement the work of Marx's cothinker, Friedrich Engels, whose essay, "The Part Played by Labor in the Transition from Ape to Man," was considered by Gould as seminal in rejecting the "idealistic" and "Western" prejudice regarding the primacy of the brain in human evolution.
		Steve Gould was an expert witness in the modern day rerun of the Scopes evolution trial in Tennessee more than a decade ago when his court testimony successfully served to relegate the "creationist" version of the origin of life to a faith-based belief having nothing to do with scientific inquiry.
	www.geocities.com /youth4sa/gould.html (2628 words)

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		Bully for Brontosaurus by Stephen Jay Gould (1991)
		Stephen Jay Gould - Dinosaur in a Haystack- pb vgc
		Urchin in the Storm by Stephen Jay Gould (1988)
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=stephen+jay+gould&... (542 words)

	Powells.com Interviews - Stephen Jay Gould
		Gould: [After a moment's thought] I think I'll pass on that one, just because it's too long to get into it.
		Gould: I don't want to sound cynical or anything, but you know the Tyrannosaurus in New York and Pittsburgh are really pretty darn good.
		Rest assured, Gould's position among the Harvard faculty remains secure despite the failure of his statistical analysis on this matter.
	www.powells.com /authors/gould.html (3359 words)

	Harvard University Press: The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
		With characteristic attention to detail, Stephen Jay Gould first describes the content and discusses the history and origins of the three core commitments of classical Darwinism: that natural selection works on organisms, not genes or species; that it is almost exclusively the mechanism of adaptive evolutionary change; and that these changes are incremental, not drastic.
		Stephen Jay Gould was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard University and Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at New York University.
		Next, he examines the three critiques that currently challenge this classic Darwinian edifice: that selection operates on multiple levels, from the gene to the group; that evolution proceeds by a variety of mechanisms, not just natural selection; and that causes operating at broader scales, including catastrophes, have figured prominently in the course of evolution.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/GOUSTR.html (274 words)

	Stephen Jay Gould on Intelligence (ResearchIndex)
		Abstract: In The Mismeasure of Man (1981) Stephen Jay Gould provides a typically readable history of one of our most vexatious intellectual enterprises: the scientific study of intelligence.
		What Gould does less well is to carry through his attack on prior attempts to understand natural intelligence scientifically: attempting to muster all possible arguments against such science, he conjures up a...
		Gould is successful, as always, in rendering the relevant scientific debates accessible to general readers.
	citeseer.ist.psu.edu /473100.html (210 words)

	Amazon.com: The Mismeasure of Man: Books: Stephen Jay Gould
		Stephen Jay Gould is truly at the zenith of his prose in this masterful text which successfully attempts to assuage men's fears of penis size.
		Gould, reediting this book in 1996, responded to "The Bell Curve's" Murray and Herrenstein and in so doing chose to ignore every major contemporary researcher in the area of intelligence, among the most important of whom are Richard Lynn, Tatu Vanhanen and Arthur Jensen.
		I have an extensive library of Stephen Jay Gould's books.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393314251?v=glance (1991 words)

	Stephen Jay Gould
		Stephen Jay Gould was an American paleontologist who was born in 1941.
		He also wrote many books which bring the concepts of biology and evolution to the general public.
		Gould was a professor at Harvard University until he died May 20, 2002.
	www.windows.ucar.edu /tour/link=/people/today/gould.html (119 words)

	Stephen Jay Gould
		A paleontologist who studied the land snails of Bermuda, and a historian of science whose last book was a 1,400-page dissection of Darwinism and the evolution of evolutionary theory, the Harvard professor was secure in his academic place.
		In the mid-1990s, when conservatives embraced sociologist Charles Murray's book The Bell Curve, which claimed that race and class differences were largely caused by genetic factors, Gould charged into the battle anew.
		His 1982 book, The Mismeasure of Man, gave antiracist campaigners the tools they needed to prevail in the bitter debates over inherited intelligence and IQ testing.
	www.thenation.com /doc/20020617/nichols (615 words)

	CancerGuide: The Median Isn't the Message
		Stephen Jay Gould was an influential evolutionary biologist who taught at Harvard University.
		He was the author of at least ten popular books on evolution, and science, including, among others,
		It is fitting that Gould, one of the world's most prolific scientists and writers, was able to complete the definitive statement of his scientific work and philosophy just in time.
	cancerguide.org /median_not_msg.html (2000 words)

	Stephen Jay Gould, "Evolution as Fact and Theory" 1994
		Stephen Jay Gould, "Evolution as Fact and Theory" 1994
		Yet a pamphlet entitled "Harvard Scientists Agree Evolution Is a Hoax" states: "The facts of punctuated equilibrium which Gould and Eldredge…are forcing Darwinists to swallow fit the picture that Bryan insisted on, and which God has revealed to us in the Bible."
		Continuing the distortion, several creationists have equated the theory of punctuated equilibrium with a caricature of the beliefs of Richard Goldschmidt, a great early geneticist.
	www.stephenjaygould.org /library/gould_fact-and-theory.html (2954 words)

	The Evolution of Life on Earth by Stephen J. Gould
		STEPHEN JAY GOULD teaches biology, geology and the history of science at Harvard University, where he has been on the faculty since 1967.
		The Evolution of Life on Earth by Stephen J. Gould
		Sthephen J. Gould has explained part of the evolution process for us, but how and when did the different living beings separate into different groups to give rise to other creatures?, where does each group descend from?, what are our common ancestors?
	www.geocities.com /CapeCanaveral/Lab/2948/gould.html (4829 words)

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