# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/stephen-jay-gould
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:40:24.160Z

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name: "Stephen Jay Gould"
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description: "Stephen Jay Gould was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, historian of science, and one of the most widely read authors of popular science of his generation. He is considered by many to be one of the most influential figures in evolutionary biology. Gould spent most of his career teaching at Harvard University and working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. In 1996, Gould was hired as the Vincent Astor Visiting Research Professor of Biology at New York University, after which he divided his time teaching between there and Harvard."
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birthDate: "1941-09-10"
deathDate: "2002-05-20"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump