Stephen jay gould, notable american paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science was born on september 10, 1941, in new york city, the son of leonard and eleanor rosenberg gould. Stephen jay gould wrote a million books which are the. And that these changes are incremental, not drastic. In the 1970s and early 1980s stephen jay goulds essays were pithy and exciting albeit opinionated and sometimes sententious because of his wit, erudition, and familiarity with recent scientific trends like the theory of plate tectonics and the controversies about mass extinctions, not to mention his own theory of punctuated equilibria. Challenging a core assumption of darwins theory of evolution, it launched the controversial idea that the majority of species originates in geological moments punctuations and persists in stasis. He was also one of the most influential and widely read authors of popular science of his generation. Essays about books and ideas paperback october 17, 1988. He taught at harvard, where he was named alexander agassiz professor of zoology, and at nyu. We believe that punctuational change dominates the history of life.
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