Stephen Jay Gould
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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.
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Gould's inspiration to become a paleontologist: T. rex specimen AMNH 5027, American Museum of Natural History, New York City
The punctuated equilibrium model (above) consists of morphological stability followed by episodic bursts of evolutionary change via rapid cladogenesis. It is contrasted (below) to phyletic gradualism, a more gradual, continuous model of evolution.
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Cerion shells from San Salvador Island, the BahamasAwards 23
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Richard DawkinsAlso won Silver Medal of the Zoological Society of London
Celâl ŞengörAlso won Mary C. Rabbitt History And Philosophy of Geology Award
Thomas Henry HuxleyAlso won Hayden Memorial Geological Award
Ernst HaeckelAlso won Linnean Medal
Abdus SalamAlso won Edinburgh Medal
Freeman DysonAlso won National Book Critics Circle Award in NonfictionAbout this person
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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