Stephen Jay Gould

Looking for a place to start researching Gould's life? This biography at the Stanford Presidential Lectures and Symposia in the Humanities and Arts pages is a great starting point. You'll also find a photo and some links there.

Want to do some biographical research here, but want some options about where to begin? Try the Google.com web directory for Gould and you'll get some good ideas.

Do you prefer a standalone approach in a biography? Well, here's a brief bio from Encyclopedia.com that contains a few hyperlinks.

You're interested in evolution, but aren't sure how to narrow the topic? These links courtesy of Harvard University should give you plenty of good ideas.

For an opposing view, take a look at this page about the evolution controversy. What, basically, is the Creationists' position?

Are you into dinosaurs? Steven Jay Gould certainly is. There's a fun site at U.C. Berkeley called The Dinosauria that, among many other things, dispels dinosaur myths and features special exhibits.

Did your reading of Gould's work whet your appetite for more information about natural science? The Academy of Natural Sciences has a wonderful site to puruse, and this is its homepage.

You've read some of Gould's work. Ready for more? Good! Here's an essay of his called "Darwinian Fundamentalism" from The New York Review of Books. The title is a play on words. Did you notice?

How about a more personal slant? In the early 1980s Gould battled abdominal mesothelioma, a particularly horrible asbestos-related cancer. Read more about it at Phoenix5.org.

On a much lighter note, here's a chat first published in the New York Times about Gould's work Ontogeny and Phylogeny and his fondness for airline coffee cups. (Free registration required.)