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Stephen Jay Gould was born on September 10, 1941, and grew up in New York City. He recieved his B.A. from Antioch College, followed by a Ph.D. in 1967 from Columbia University. Immediately after recieveing his doctrate he was hired by Harvard University, where he stayed for the rest of his life.

In 1973 Harvard promoted him to Professor of Geology and Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology at the institution's Museum of Comparative Zoology, and in 1982 was given the title Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology. In 1983 he was awarded fellowship into the American Association for the Advancement of Science, where he later served as president (2000). He also served as president of the Paleontological Society (1985-1986) and the Society for the Study of Evolution (1990-1991). In 1989 Gould was elected into the body of the National Academy of Sciences.

He was a passionate advocate of evolutionary theory, though he disagreed strongly with other well-known proponents such as Richard Dawkins over sociobiology and evolutionary psychology. He is best known for his work in punctuated equilibrium, as well as his writings, many of which are written at a laymen-level. Gould died on May 20, 2002.

See also

• NOMA

Bibliography

• For technical audiences
  • Ontogeny and Phylogeny (1977), ISBN 0-674-63940-5
  • Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle (1988), ISBN 0-674-89198-8
  • The Structure of Evolutionary Theory ISBN 0-674-00613-5

• For general audiences
  • The Mismeasure of Man (1981; revised 1996), ISBN 0-393-03972-2
  • Wonderful Life (book)|Wonderful Life (W.W. Norton, 1989), ISBN 0-393-02705-8
  • Full House: The Spread of Excellence From Plato to Darwin (1996), ISBN 0-517-70394-7
  • Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown (1997); also published in a substantially extended second edition (Harmony, 1999), ISBN 0-609-60541-0
  • Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life (1999), ISBN 0-345-43009-3
  • The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox: Mending the Gap Between Science and the Humanities (Harmony, 2003), ISBN 0-609-60140-7