Stephen Jay Gould
Biography
Stephen Jay Gould, the son of Leonard and Eleanor (Rosenberg) Gould was born on September 10, 1941 in New York, New York. As a boy he collected and traded baseball cards with his friends. In the early 1960's Stephen attended Antioch College. While he was at the University Of Leeds, he organized weekly demonstrations and refused to let blacks join. In 1967, he earned a doctorate in paleontology from Columbia University and went on to teach at Harvard, where he would spend the rest of his career. After college he traveled to many different country's like Europe and France. Stephen was first married to Deborah Lee on October 3, 1965. They had two sons, Jesse and Ethan. In 1995 he got married again to Rhonda Roland Shearer who had to kids, Jade and London Allen. In July of 1982 Gould was diagnosed with mesothelioma which didn't end up killing him. There was another type of cancer called metastatic adenocarcinoma of the lung, a form of cancer which had spread to his brain unfortunately killed him on May 20, 2002. In 2008, he was posthumously awarded the Darwin-Wallace Medal, along with 12 other recipients.
Stephen Jay Gould, the son of Leonard and Eleanor (Rosenberg) Gould was born on September 10, 1941 in New York, New York. As a boy he collected and traded baseball cards with his friends. In the early 1960's Stephen attended Antioch College. While he was at the University Of Leeds, he organized weekly demonstrations and refused to let blacks join. In 1967, he earned a doctorate in paleontology from Columbia University and went on to teach at Harvard, where he would spend the rest of his career. After college he traveled to many different country's like Europe and France. Stephen was first married to Deborah Lee on October 3, 1965. They had two sons, Jesse and Ethan. In 1995 he got married again to Rhonda Roland Shearer who had to kids, Jade and London Allen. In July of 1982 Gould was diagnosed with mesothelioma which didn't end up killing him. There was another type of cancer called metastatic adenocarcinoma of the lung, a form of cancer which had spread to his brain unfortunately killed him on May 20, 2002. In 2008, he was posthumously awarded the Darwin-Wallace Medal, along with 12 other recipients.
Stephen Jay Gould and Charles Darwin
Stephen Jay Gould added the theory of punctuated equilibrium to Charles Darwin's Theory. Gould said that his theory revised a key pillar "in the central logic of the Darwinian Theory. His new theory stated that evolutionary change occurs rapidly, alternating with longer periods of evolutionary stability. Which means that there are spikes of evolution throughout the world/society and then it levels off and that pattern keeps alternating throughout time. Most people said that it "had a major impact on paleontology and evolutionary biology."