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	Stephen Jay Gould - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		Gould was twice married; to Deborah Lee in 1965 which ended in divorce, and to artist Rhonda Roland Shearer in 1995.
	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.
		Gould and Eldredge re-addressed this question, pointing out that the fossil record was one of millions of years of stasis, punctuated by relatively brief periods of rapid change - hence punctuated equilibrium.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4418543,00.html (1780 words)

	Stephen Jay Gould (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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.
		Gould moved the argument up the chain, holding that selection could act on the level of a species as a whole, and perhaps on groups of species, as when a geological catastrophe made the oceans uninhabitable for all species of trilobites.
		Gould's most outspoken opponents, notably Richard Dawkins, took the opposite tack, moving down the chain, claiming that evolution acted not so much on individual organisms as on their genes, and that the genes are the only things really worth looking at.
	www.goodbyemag.com /apr02/gould.html (1962 words)

	Socialism Today - Stephen Jay Gould
		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".
		One of Gould’s most famous collections is The Panda’s Thumb, in which he describes the evolution of the Panda’s ‘thumb’, a muscled and flexible digit which evolved from a bony part of its forepaw and is used to grasp the bamboo the Panda subsists on.
		Gould protests that Dawkins’s theory arises from "some bad habits of Western scientific thought the idea that wholes should be understood by decomposition into ‘basic’ units; that properties of microscopic units can generate and explain the behaviour of macroscopic results".
	www.socialismtoday.org /67/gould.html (1860 words)

	The apotheosis of Stephen Jay Gould by Paul R. Gross
		Gould was not a politician, not a film star, not, despite his well-advertised baseball know-how, a sports figure.
		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.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/21/oct02/gould.htm (2102 words)

	A scientist of the people
		Gould was one of the most influential evolutionary theorists of his generation and the most talented popularizer of science in the past century.
		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.
		Gould freely admitted that he was attracted to the theory because of his knowledge of Hegel and Marx.
	www.socialistworker.org /2002-1/410/410_08_StephenJayGould.shtml (1286 words)

	Stephen Jay Gould * September 10, 1941- May 20, 2002
		Gould was a champion for teaching evolutionary science in school curricula, arguing that creationism was not an adequate alternative.
		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.
		Gould is particularly celebrated for his ability to popularize science and the punctuated equilibrium theory of evolution he and Niles Eldredge developed.
	www.americanhumanist.org /press/sjgould.html (295 words)

	stephen jay gould
		Gould was among the most vehement critics of the search for the evolutionary basis of human behavior, the so-called science of sociobiology.
		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.
		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.
	www.geocities.com /youth4sa/gould.html (2628 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 wrote of one high school teacher, asked what he would do if the law was upheld, “looked up and said, in his calm and dignified voice: It would be my tendency not to comply.
		Gould died of cancer in 2002 at the age of sixty.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/gouldsj.html (1803 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.
		Gould occupies a rather curious position, particularly on this side of the Atlantic.
	en.wikiquote.org /wiki/Stephen_Jay_Gould (12894 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).
		Gould found the recently discovered homologies between the invertebrate and vertebrate “homeobox” genes involved in body segment and head development to be further evidence for a great antiquity of constraints imposed by developmental mechanisms.
		Gould also concluded that because developmental systems set limits on the kinds of genetic variations that can be expressed, the variation presented to selection is not random.
	www.hbes.com /HBES/zimmerman-rev.htm (2747 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 is survived by his second wife, Rhonda Roland Shearer, and by two children from his first marriage, Jesse and Ethan.
		Gould was a trustee of the Alexandria, Egypt, Library, and memorial contributions may be sent to the Alexandria Library Scholars Copyright Fund, care of Rhonda Shearer, 62 Greene St., New York, N.Y. Copyright 2002 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2002/05.16/99-gould.html (1316 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).
		I sometimes think that Gould, as someone who has never been faced with explaining ordinary perception and behavior in his day-to- day work, is apt to underestimate it and therefore to give short shrift to natural selection, which is the only force capable of explaining that kind of complexity.
		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)

	Online NewsHour: Conversation with Stephen Jay Gould -- November 26, 1996
		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.
		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.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/gergen/november96/gould.htm (1805 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)

	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 - (1941 - 2002)
		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 this morning in Manhattan of metastasized lung cancer.
		Gould, along with Niles Eldredge, a paleontologist at the New York's Museum of Natural History, developed an evolutionary theory called "punctuated equilibrium," where long periods of evolutionary stability are broken by shorter spurts of evolutionary change, perhaps sparked by external events such as climate change or the impact of a comet.
		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.
	www.dickran.net /news/gould.html (434 words)

	Stephen Jay Gould, R.I.P. by Steve Sailer for National Review; obituary, Marxist, IQ, punctuated equilibria, Simpsons, ...
		Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, the literary world's favorite scientist, has died of lung cancer at the age of 60.
		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.
		After Gould's death this week, Pournelle summed up, "I think Gould's legacy left the House of Intellect stronger particularly where he was wrong, because he made his opponents rethink their positions and sharpen their concepts.
	www.isteve.com /2002_Stephen_Jay_Gould_RIP.htm (737 words)

	Stephen Jay Gould's Battle Against Racism
		Gould led the reader on a near-comical documentary of the ways the scientists of yesteryear tried to measure skulls, brains, heredity, and even the tattooing on criminals with the primary goal of declaring that western and northern Europeans had higher IQs than Eastern and Southern Europeans and people of color had much lower 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.
		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.
	www.commondreams.org /views02/0529-01.htm (821 words)

	Powells.com Interviews - Stephen Jay Gould
		Gould: That's really a linguistic rather than a biological point, and I think that it's much less theoretically interesting than has often been given out to the public.
		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)

	The Unofficial Stephen Jay Gould Archive
		A paleontologist and educator at Harvard University, Gould made his largest contributions to science as the leading spokes-person for evolutionary theory.
		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.
		On this website you will find articles by Gould and his colleagues focusing on the finer points of his work, the nature of life's evolution, and the general ontogeny of evolutionary theory.
	www.stephenjaygould.org (198 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)

	Amazon.com: The Mismeasure of Man: Books: Stephen Jay Gould (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		For readers interested in science and philosophy, Gould is not anti-science, he pushed beyond the negativism of Kahn and Feyerabend and advocate a new outlook of science that emphasize both the value and limitation of science.
		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.
		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.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393314251?v=glance (1991 words)

	Steve Sailer on Stephen Jay Gould on National Review Online
		Gould was wonderfully ambitious — he marketed himself as the new, improved Charles Darwin for our age of political correctness.
		As a Marxist, Gould hated the possibility that evolution had shaped human nature beyond the powers of social engineers to alter.
		After Gould's death this week, Pournelle summed up, "I think Gould's legacy left the House of Intellect stronger — particularly where he was wrong, because he made his opponents rethink their positions and sharpen their concepts.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/comment-sailer052202.asp (768 words)

	Stephen Jay Gould
		Stephen Jay Gould was an American paleontologist who was born in 1941.
		This states that evolution is not a gradual process but, rather, has static periods followed by brief bursts of change.
		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)

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