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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Interpretations of this critical period are subject of lively debate among scientists like Stephen Jay Gould of Harvard University and Simon Conway Morris of Cambridge University. Gould emphasizes ...

Here was the cartoon legendary illustrator Puck came up with. Source: Life of Jay Gould Fisk and Gould also brought market pressure to bear. By one account, in order to increase traffic on the ...

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 ...