Stephen Jay Gould

Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was a New York-born American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation. Born Jewish, he did not formally practice any organized religion, and though he was raised in a socialist home he did not become an active socialist himself. He spoke out against what he saw as cultural oppression in all its forms, especially alleged pseudoscience in the service of racism.

Books

• For technical audiences
• Ontogeny and Phylogeny (Harvard University Press, 1977)
• Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle (Harvard University Press, 1988), ISBN 0-674-89198-8
• The Structure of Evolutionary Theory (Harvard University Press, 2002), ISBN 0-674-00613-5
• For general audiences
• The Mismeasure of Man (1981; revised 1996)
• Wonderful Life (W.W. Norton, 1989), ISBN 0-393-02705-8
• ' (Harmony Books, 1996), ISBN 0-517-70394-7
• ' (Harmony, 1997); also published in a substantially extended second edition (Harmony, 1999), ISBN 0-609-60541-0
• ' (Ballantine Books, 1999), ISBN 0-345-43009-3
• ' (Harmony, 2003), ISBN 0-609-60140-7
• Collected essays from Natural History
• ' (Norton, 1977), ISBN 0-393-06425-5
• ' (Norton, 1980), ISBN 0-393-01380-4
• ' (Norton, 1983), ISBN 0-393-01716-8
• The Flamingo's Smile (Norton, 1985), 0-393-02228-5
• Bully for Brontosaurus (Norton, 1991), ISBN 0-393-02961-1
• Eight Little Piggies (Norton, 1994), ISBN 0-393-03416-X
• Dinosaur in a Haystack (Harmony, 1995), ISBN 0-517-70393-9
• Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms (Harmony, 1998), ISBN 0-609-60141-5
• The Lying Stones of Marrakech (Harmony, 2000), ISBN 0-609-60142-3
• ' (Harmony, 2001), ISBN 0-609-60143-1
• Other essay collections
• An Urchin in the Storm (Norton, 1987), ISBN 0-393-02492-X
• ' (Norton, 2003), ISBN 0-393-05755-0