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.

References

• Mayr, E, Toward a new philosophy of biology, 1988 Harvard University Press, pp. 534 - 535
• Gould, S.J., and Richard Lewontin, "The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossion paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme", Proc R Soc Lond B 205, pp. 581-598, (1979)
• Gould, S.J. (1987) The limits of adaptation: Is language a spandrel of the human brain? Paper presented to the Cognitive Science Seminar, Centre for Cognitive Science, MIT.
• {{Journal reference issue | Author=Gould, S. J. | Title=The confusion over evolution. | Journal=New York Review of Books | Volume=39 | Issue=19 | Year=1992| Pages=39-54}}
• Pinker, S., 2002. The Blank Slate, Penguin. Ch. 6: "Political Scientists".
• Tooby, J. and L. Cosmides, Letter to the Editor of The New York Review of Books on Stephen Jay Gould's Darwinian Fundamentalism (June 12, 1997) and Evolution: The Pleasures of Pluralism (June 26, 1997)
• {{Journal reference | Author=Rushton, J. P. | Title=Race, intelligence, and the brain: The errors and omissions of the revised edition of S. J. Gould's The Mismeasure of Man | Journal=Personality and Individual Differences | Year=1996 | Volume=23 | Pages=169–180}}