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.

External links

• Darwinian Fundamentalism: article by Gould on evolution
• The Median Isn't the Message: Gould confronts the statistics of cancer and finds hope
• The Gould vs. Dawkins debate
• Arthur Jensen Replies to Steven Jay Gould Extended review of Mismeasure of Man
• The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: Gould and Lewontin's classic article
• Richard C. Lewontin sums up Gould's career in an obituary
• The Unofficial Stephen Jay Gould Archive contains a wide range of resources including copies of a selection of papers and essays, biographies and overviews.
• The Mismeasure of Gould: Marxist ideology vs. biological reality - criticism
• Online audio interview with Gould
• An Elegy For Gould: Peaches, Tarpaper, & Stephen Jay Gould
• Excerpts from Gould Lectures at Stanford University
• Criticism of Gould re: Creationism in Kansas