Stephen Jay Gould

Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was a prominent American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. wiki

"He has served as president of the American Society of Naturalists, the Paleontological Society, and the Society for the Study of Evolution, and in 1998 became president-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the nation's largest scientific organization."

He was a leading critic of E. O. Wilson's concept of sociobiology.


 * Advisory Board, Committee to Free Lori Berenson
 * Recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship: Other Environmental

Biographical Work

 * Warren D. Allmon, Patricia H. Kelley, and Robert M. Ross, eds., Stephen Jay Gould: Reflections on His View of Life (Oxford University Press, 2009). (review published in Monthly Review)

Related

 * Richard York and Brett Clark, “Debunking as Positive Science: Reflections in Honor of the 25th Anniversary of Stephen Jay Gould’s The Mismeasure of Man,” Monthly Review, February 2006.
 * John Horgan, "Defending Stephen Jay Gould’s Crusade against Biological Determinism", Scientific American Blog, June 24, 2011.