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Stephen Jay Gould

 
  • Date of Birth: September 10, 1941
  • Place of Birth: Queens, New York
  • Date of Death: May 19, 2002
  • Gender: Male
  • Nationality: American
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  • Genres: Science

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American paleontologist known for his popular science essays published in Natural History

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"Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human arrogance off one pedestal after another of our previous conviction about our own self-importance," Gould wrote.
"The norm for a species or, by extension, a community is stability. Speciation is a rare and difficult event that punctuates a system in homeostatic equilibrium."

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