Stephen Jay Gould Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Stephen Jay Gould (/ɡuːld/; September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and historian of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation. Gould spent most of his career teaching at Harvard University and working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. In the later years of his life, Gould also taught biology and evolution at New York University.Gould's most significant contribution to evolutionary biology was the theory of punctuated equilibrium, which he developed with Niles Eldredge in 1972. The theory proposes that most evolution is marked by long periods of evolutionary stability, which is punctuated by rare instances of branching evolution. The theory was contrasted against phyletic gradualism, the popular idea that evolutionary change is marked by a pattern of smooth and continuous change in the fossil record.Most of Gould's empirical research was based on the land snail genera Poecilozonites and Cerion. He also contributed to evolutionary developmental biology, and has received wide praise for his book Ontogeny and Phylogeny. In evolutionary theory he opposed strict selectionism, sociobiology as applied to humans, and evolutionary psychology. He campaigned against creationism and proposed that science and religion should be considered two distinct fields (or "magisteria") whose authorities do not overlap.Gould was known by the general public mainly from his 300 popular essays in the magazine Natural History, and his books written for a non-specialist audience. In April 2000, the US Library of Congress named him a "Living Legend".
George Jay Gould I, Anna Gould, Howard Gould, Frank Jay Gould, Helen Miller Shepard, Edwin Gould, Sr.
Parents
John Burr Gould, Mary More Gould
Awards
MacArthur Fellowship, Royal Society Prizes for Science Books, Darwin–Wallace Medal, National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction, Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, St. Louis Literary Award, Scientist of the Year, Glenn T. Seaborg Award, Paleontological Society Medal, Creative Arts Awar...
Nominations
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
Movies
Darwin's Revolution in Thought
Star Sign
Virgo
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Fact
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Achieved popular renown unprecedented among scientific peers, exemplified by his depiction on "The Simpsons."
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Winner of National Book and National Book Critics Circle awards.
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Two months before death, Harvard University Press published his 1,433-page "The Structure of Evolutionary Theory", the product of over 30 years of research, which synthesizes Darwinian theories with his own views of macroevolutionary.
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Taught at Harvard, 1967 to death in 2002, rising to final post as Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard; also served as Astor Visiting Research Professor of Biology at New York University.
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Graduate of Jamaica High School, with BS in biology from Antioch College, Ohio, 1963, and Ph.D in paleontology from Columbia University, 1967.
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Son of court stenographer Leonard Gould and Eleanor Gould, artist and entrepreneur.
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Professor of evolutionary biology at Harvard University
Miscellaneous
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Year
Status
Character
Evolution
2002
TV Series documentary advisor - 5 episodes
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Simpsons
2002
TV Series dedicatee - 1 episode
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Race: The Power of an Illusion
2003
TV Series documentary
Himself - Paleontologist
Evolution
2002
TV Series documentary
Himself
Life Beyond Earth
1998
TV Movie documentary
Himself
The Simpsons
1997
TV Series
Himself
The Sterilization of Leilani Muir
1996
Documentary
Himself - Harvard University (as Prof. Stephen Jay Gould)