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Stephen Jay Gould, Harvard’s famed evolutionary biologist whose prolific writings brought science to the masses and whose ground-breaking theories and outspoken style stirred controversy in his field, died yesterday morning at his home in New York, 20 years after first being diagnosed with cancer...
Stephen Jay Gould, Harvard’s famed evolutionary biologist whose prolific writings brought science to the masses and whose ground-breaking theories and outspoken style stirred controversy in his field, died this morning at his home in New York, 20 years after first being diagnosed with cancer...
...private paternity checks "are simply driven by the age-old male fear" that they may have been cuckolded by their partner - a fear that could have been fanned by a friend's remark that the chip doesn't look as if it's off the old block. Indeed, British biologist Robin Baker analyzed the results of 16 paternity studies in 1996 and concluded that at least one in 10 children in the Western world was not sired by the man believed to be the father. The number of negative results reported by Germany's DNA labs - an average...
...popularity and his widely publicized anti-creationist, anti-sociobiological arguments have lent that very term to his persona. As George V. Lauder, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, commented in an email, “[Gould] is probably the best known evolutionary biologist of his generation. His popularity is due to his ability to choose what seem like small features of the biological world…and use these examples as a launching pad to explain in a creative and clever way key features of evolutionary biology.” According to Wrangham...
...don’t think there is another forum that would bring a historian and molecular biologist together,” said Garwin...