Stephen Jay Gould

TV program guest
Episode appearances
Stephen Jay Gould: This View of Life (Him/Herself)
Finders Keepers (Interviewee)
Dinosaur in a Haystack (Interviewee)
 
 

Public speaker
Speeches or presentations
Eli Lilly Lectures (Lecture, 1993)
Human Talk! (Lecture, 1993)
Isaiah Berlin Annual Lectureship (Lecture, 1991)
 
 

Person
Spouse (or domestic partner)
Rhonda Roland Shearer (2002-05-20, 1995, Marriage)
Deborah Lee (1995, 1965-10-03, Marriage)
Parents
Eleanor Gould
Leonard Gould
Children
Ethan Gould
Jesse Gould
Employment history
Assistant Professor of Geology and Assistant Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology (Harvard University, 1967, 1971)
Associate Professor of Geology and Associate Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology (Harvard University, 1971, 1973)
Vincent Astor Visiting Research Professor of Biology (New York University, 1996, 2002)
Education
Columbia University (1967, Doctorate)
Antioch College (1963, Geology, Bachelor of Arts)
University of Leeds
Profession
Author
Biologist
Paleontologist
Quotations
"... For Dawkins, evolution is a battle among genes, each seeking to make more copies of itself. Bodies are merely the places where genes aggregate for a time ..."
"... many folks take them seriously because they just ‘know’ that evolution can never be seen in the immediate here and now. In fact, a precisely opposite situation prevails: biologists have documented a veritable glut of cases for rapid and eminently mea
"... objectivity resides in recognizing your preferences and then subjecting them to especially harsh scrutiny..."
Places lived
Queens
Ethnicity
Ashkenazi Jews
Date of birth
1941-09-10
Place of birth
Queens
Country of nationality
United States of America
Religion
Agnosticism
Atheism
Gender
Male
 
 

Columnist
Columns Written
This View of Life (1974, 2001)
 
 

Radio subject
Episodes with this subject
"Birth of Modern Science" with George Gale
"Evolution" with Richard Dawkins
"Guns, Germs, and Steel" with Jared Diamond
Segments with this subject
Robert talks with noted author and paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould
We remember Paleontologist and evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould
 
 

Periodical editor
Periodicals edited
Editorial board (1980, 1977, American Naturalist)
Editorial board (1991, 1986, Science)
Editorial board (1972, 1970, Systematic Biology)
 
 

Film director
Films directed
Darwin's Revolution in Thought
 
 

TV subject
TV episodes
Stephen Jay Gould: This View of Life
 
 

Person or entity appearing in film
Films appeared in
Darwin's Revolution in Thought (Him/Herself)
Life Beyond Earth (Him/Herself)
In Search of History: The Monkey Trial
 
 

Honorary Degree Recipient
Honorary Degrees
Doctor of Science (1999, Iona College)
Doctor of Science (1999, Eastern Michigan University)
Doctor of Science (1994, University of Glasgow)
 
 

Name source
Things named after this
8373 Stephengould
 
 

Academic
Appointments, fellowships, etc.
National Science Foundation (Fellow, 1963, 1967)
National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator, 1969, 2002)
European Geosciences Union (Honorary Foreign Fellow, 1985)
Research areas
Evolutionary biology
Paleontology
 
 

Deceased Person
Date of death
2002-05-20
Place of death
New York City
Cause of death
Cancer
Lung cancer
 
 

Organization member
Member of
Society for American Baseball Research
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
United States National Academy of Sciences (1989)
Committees served on
Committee of Professors, Department of Biology (1973, 2002, Member)
Smithsonian Council (1976, 1978, Member)
American Association for the Advancement of Science Council (1974, 1976, Member)
 
 

TV Actor
TV episode performances
Lisa the Skeptic (Him/Herself)
Lisa the Skeptic
 
 

Literature Subject
Works Written About This Topic
2,000 Years, What's the Big Deal?
A Career in the Glare of Public Acclaim
A Darwinian Leap
 
 

Influence Node
Influenced
Brian Karlak
Neven Sesardic
Peers
Richard Dawkins
 
 

Organization leader
Governance of
Society for the Study of Evolution (1991, 1990, President)
Rockefeller Foundation (1994)
American Friends of the British Museum (1992)
 
 

Award Winner
Awards Won
Ecology and Evolution (1981-07, MacArthur Fellowship)
? (1994, St. Louis Literary Award)
The Mismeasure of Man (1982, National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction)
 
 

Award Nominee
Award Nominations
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction (1990, Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History)
National Book Award for Science (Hardcover) (1981, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History)
National Book Award for Science (Hardcover) (1982, The Mismeasure of Man)
 
 

Interviewee
Interviews Given
An Interview with Stephen J. Gould: Joltin' Joe and the Pursuit of Excellence
An Urchin in a Haystack
Gould Shares Thoughts On Science
 
 

Author
Series Written (or Contributed To)
Science Masters series
Works written
A Darwinian gentleman at Marx's funeral
A division of worms: Jean Baptiste Lamarck's contributions to evolutionary theory, part 1
A tale of two worksites
Works edited
The Historical Atlas of the Earth: A Visual Celebration of the Earth's Physical Past
Book editions published
An Urchin In The Storm
An Urchin in the Storm
An Urchin in the Storm: Essays About Books and Ideas
Contributing author to
Alexis Rockman
Approaches to Primate Paleobiology (Contributions to Primatology)
Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography: From the Consolidated Natural Gas Company Foundation Collection of the Nation
 
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