Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould was born on September 10, 1941. Queens, and died May 20, 2002, New York City. Gould was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also widely read by all writers of popular science of his generation. Gould spent most of his career first studing then teaching at Harvard, and working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. later in his life, Stephen also taught biology and evolution at New York University near his home in SoHo.
Gould's most reconized contribution to science was the theory of punctuated
equilibrium, which he descovered with Niles Eldredge in 1972, in New York. The
theory states that most evolution is marked by long stages of evolution, which is concluded by rare instances of evolution. The theory proposed a new theory against phyletic gradualism, a popular idea that evolutionary change is marked by a pattern of a continuous change in the fossil record.
Most of Gould's research was based on that of a land snail. He also helped to the discovery to evolutionary developmental biology, and in return, wrote a lot of books including Ontogeny and Phylogeny. In the evolutionary theory, he disagreed with selectionism, sociobiology as applied to humans, and evolutionary science. He opposed against creationism and said science should be completly different fields whose in which do not interfere. Many of Gould's essays for the magazine Natural History were reprinted in collections such as Ever Since Darwin and The Panda's Thumb were redistributed.
Gould's most reconized contribution to science was the theory of punctuated
equilibrium, which he descovered with Niles Eldredge in 1972, in New York. The
theory states that most evolution is marked by long stages of evolution, which is concluded by rare instances of evolution. The theory proposed a new theory against phyletic gradualism, a popular idea that evolutionary change is marked by a pattern of a continuous change in the fossil record.
Most of Gould's research was based on that of a land snail. He also helped to the discovery to evolutionary developmental biology, and in return, wrote a lot of books including Ontogeny and Phylogeny. In the evolutionary theory, he disagreed with selectionism, sociobiology as applied to humans, and evolutionary science. He opposed against creationism and said science should be completly different fields whose in which do not interfere. Many of Gould's essays for the magazine Natural History were reprinted in collections such as Ever Since Darwin and The Panda's Thumb were redistributed.