From Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda’s Thumb.
A Website About Stephen Jay Gould's Essays On Natural History. Home; Contact.A majority of Gould's essay collections are comprised of commentary written for his monthly column, “This View of Life,” in Natural History magazine. Gould's signature approach in his essays is to.Editor’s Note: The following is an essay by Stephen J Gould, a leading evolutionary biologist on the faculties of Harvard and New York University. In 1982, we was diagnosed with abdominal mesothelioma and found out through his research into the disease that the “median” life span for someone with abdominal mesothelioma was 8 months.
Stephen Jay Gould was born on September 10, 1941. Queens, and died May 20, 2002, New York City.. Gould's most reconized contribution to science was the theory of punctuated. Many of Gould's essays for the magazine Natural History were reprinted in collections such as Ever Since Darwin and The Panda's Thumb were redistributed.Stephen Jay Gould was a prominent American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation. Gould spent most of his career teaching at Harvard University and working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
Stephen Jay Gould emphasizes Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection by the use of Odysseus. In Odysseus’s account he had not one but two paths to choose from throughout his travels. Low and behold the route chosen was straight down the middle, creating his very own path.
