In the 1970s, a crop of books purporting to provide a scientific basis for gender inequality met sharp criticism from figures like Stephen Jay Gould. Decades later, these debates have fallen out ...

NOVA mourns the passing of our friend and advisor, Stephen Jay Gould, author, naturalist, and interpreter of evolutionary ideas. Following is an interview with Stephen Jay Gould conducted in 2001.

They are, in the opinion of no less an authority than the paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould ... mystery that Gould saw in the Burgess Shale, the subject of his book Wonderful Life: Why us?

The concept of punctuated equilibrium was, to some, a radical new idea when it was first proposed by Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge in 1972. Now it is widely recognized as a useful model for ...

In this 2002 essay, neurobiologist Steven Rose remembers the life and work of Stephen Jay Gould, particularly his role in the 'radical science… Stephen Jay Gould tackles the notion that existing ...

Gould's hopeful monsters were the homeotic mutants of Drosophila melanogaster, notorious for their transformed body parts—wing to haltere, antenna to leg. Although the essay lacks the trademark ...