Books
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Bibliography

  1. (2003)

    Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville: A Lifelong Passion for Baseball

  2. (2002)

    I Have Landed

  3. (2000)

    Crossing Over

  4. (2000)

    Lying Stones of Marrakech

  5. (1996)

    Full House

See complete bibliography (43)

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  • Legal name: Stephen Jay Gould
  • Birthdate: September 10, 1941
  • Birthplace: Queens, New York,
  • Nationality: American
  • Gender: Male
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  • Genres: Science
  • Date of death: May 19, 2002 (aged 60)
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Overview

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."