Stephen Jay Gould was a prominent 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. Most of Gould's empirical research was on land snails. Gould helped develop the theory of punctuated equilibrium, in which evolutionary stability is marked by instances of rapid change. He contributed to evolutionary developmental biology. 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 compatible, complementary fields, or "magisteria," whose authority does not overlap. Many of Gould's essays were reprinted in collected volumes, such as Ever Since Darwin and The Panda's Thumb, while his popular treatises included books such as The Mismeasure of Man, Wonderful Life and Full House. -Wikipedia
Series
Books
An Urchin in the Storm
Essays About Books and Ideas
1988
Human Evolution
Selections from Scientific American Magazine
1999
The Flamingo's Smile
Reflections in Natural History
1985
Punctuated Equilibrium
2007
The Richness of Life
The Essential Stephen Jay Gould
2006
Shells
1997
Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes
Further Reflections in Natural History
1983
The Panda's Thumb
More Reflections in Natural History
1980
Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville
A Lifelong Passion for Baseball
2003
The Book of Life
An Illustrated History of the Evolution of Life on Earth
1993
Questioning the Millennium
A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown
1997
I Have Landed
The End of a Beginning in Natural History
2002
Obra Esencial
2004
Finders, Keepers
Eight Collectors
1992
Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle
Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time
1987
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
2002
Ever Since Darwin
Reflections in Natural History
1977
Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms
Essays on Natural History
1998
Bully for Brontosaurus
Reflections in Natural History
1991
Evolution and Extinction
1998
Rocks of Ages
Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life
1999
Crossing Over
Where Art and Science Meet
2000
Eight Little Piggies
Reflections in Natural History
1993
Full House
The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin
1996
Wonderful Life
The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
1989
Adam's Navel and Other Essays
1995
The Lying Stones of Marrakech
Penultimate Reflections in Natural History
2000
Alexis Rockman
2004
Dinosaur in a Haystack
Reflections in Natural History
1995
Life in the Universe
1997
Melancholies of Knowledge
Literature in the Age of Science (Margins of Literature
1995
The Mismeasure of Man
1982
Ontogeny and Phylogeny
1977
The Hedgehog, the Fox & the Magister's Pox
Mending the Gap Between Science & the Humanities
2003
