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    Stephen Jay Gould (/ɡuːld/; September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was...
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    In his 1991 essay, "The Case of the Creeping Fox Terrier Clone", Stephen Jay Gould lamented the prevalence of a much-repeated phrase to indicate Eohippus...
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    characteristic, rather than a direct product of adaptive selection. Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin brought the term into biology in their 1979 paper...
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  • Stephen Gould may refer to: Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002), American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and historian of science Stephen Gould (tenor)...
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    Natural History, Stephen Jay Gould argued that Haeckel "exaggerated the similarities by idealizations and omissions." As well, Gould argued that Haeckel's...
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  • the subject of controversy. Critics, led by Richard Lewontin and Stephen Jay Gould, argued that genes played a role in human behavior, but that traits...
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  • detailed critiques for months and years after the book's release. Stephen Jay Gould, reviewing the book in The New Yorker, said that the book "contains...
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    Company. ISBN 0393017168. OL 25397178M. Gould, Stephen Jay (2006). The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay Gould. W.W. Norton. pp. 69–. ISBN 978-0-393-06498-8...
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    explanation of observable phenomena – has been very influential. Stephen Jay Gould, in answering the Omphalos hypothesis, claimed that only hypotheses...
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    Punctuated equilibrium (category Stephen Jay Gould)
    lineages (anagenesis). In 1972, paleontologists Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould published a landmark paper developing their theory and called it punctuated...
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  • tennis player Jay M. Gould (1915–2005), statistician and epidemiologist Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002), American biologist and author Jay Gould (entrepreneur)...
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  • The Siren Song of Stephen Jay Gould is a one-act play by Benjamin Bettenbender. It was performed at the Cape Cod Theatre Project at the Falmouth Academy...
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  • chapter, entitled "Bully for Brontosaurus", is an extended critique of Stephen Jay Gould, who Dennett feels has created a distorted view of evolution with...
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  • The Mismeasure of Man (category Books by Stephen Jay Gould)
    The Mismeasure of Man is a 1981 book by paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. The book is both a history and critique of the statistical methods and cultural...
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  • Wonderful Life (book) (category Books by Stephen Jay Gould)
    book on the evolution of Cambrian fauna by Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. The volume made The New York Times Best Seller list, was the 1991...
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  • phrase which was used as the title of an article by paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould in 1981. He describes fact in science as meaning data, not known with...
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    intermediate form between apes and Europeans. The evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould criticized Broca and his contemporaries of being engaged in "scientific...
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  • Non-overlapping magisteria (category Stephen Jay Gould)
    Non-overlapping magisteria (NOMA) is the view, advocated by paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, that science and religion each represent different areas of inquiry...
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    that described by Goddard. The paleontologist and science writer Stephen Jay Gould advanced the view that Goddard—or someone working with him—had retouched...
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    Jay Gould II (September 1, 1888 – January 26, 1935) was an American real tennis player and a grandson of the railroad magnate Jay Gould. He was the world...
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  • may be imperfectly developed. The term "exaptation" was proposed by Stephen Jay Gould and Elisabeth Vrba, as a replacement for 'pre-adaptation', which they...
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  • Ontogeny and Phylogeny (category Books by Stephen Jay Gould)
    Ontogeny and Phylogeny is a 1977 book on evolution by Stephen Jay Gould, in which the author explores the relationship between embryonic development (ontogeny)...
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  • used largely by paleontologists referring to non-paleontologists. Stephen Jay Gould said of neontology: All professions maintain their parochialisms,...
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    Welty, Walter Benjamin, E. O. Wilson, John Rawls, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Jay Gould, Helen Vendler, Carol Gilligan, Amartya Sen, David Blight, Martha...
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  • biologists Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin penned a famous critique, "The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm". According to Gould and...
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  • known as the "Spandrels paper", is a paper by evolutionary biologists Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin, originally published in the Proceedings of the...
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  • motives to this effort." Gould 1981, p. 67 Rachel N. Hastings (2008), "Black Eyez: Memoirs of a Revolutionary", p. 17 Gould, Stephen Jay (November 1994). "The...
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    through the imposition of private property. Many biologists (including Stephen Jay Gould, one of the most influential evolutionary biologists of his generation)...
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    Earth is shown floating inside a transparent sphere. According to Stephen Jay Gould, "there never was a period of 'flat Earth darkness' among scholars...
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  • Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin (category Books by Stephen Jay Gould)
    Excellence from Plato to Darwin is a 1996 book by evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould. It was released in the United Kingdom as Life's Grandeur, with the...
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