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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 this morning at his home in New York, 20 years after first being diagnosed with cancer...
...Gould, who was Agassiz professor of zoology and professor of geology, developed an evolutionary theory known as “punctuated equilibrium” that suggests that the process of evolution—traditionally conceived as slow and steady—is actually broken up by short periods of relatively rapid change...
Rachelle K. Gould ’03, who stopped by the these [student] groups and we should identify them to make up ground,” she said...
...Gould cited last Friday’s Battle of the Bands in the Lowell House courtyard as an example of Poe’s commitment to improving House social life...
...don’t know if we’re really the coolest House on campus, but he certainly helped up the ‘coolness’ quotient,” Gould said...