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Stephen Jay Gould...
Stephen Jay Gould, Harvard’s famed evolutionary biologist whose prolific writings brought science to the masses and outspoken style stirred controversy in his field, died May 20 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 the process of evolution—traditionally conceived as slow and steady—is actually broken up by short periods of relatively rapid change...
...April, Gould published The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, a 1,433-page work which took 20 years to write...
...Gould underwent successful treatment for cancer that doctors had said was terminal. He recounted the experience in his renowned essay “The Median Isn’t the Message,” in which he wrote of learning that, statistically speaking, he had a matter of months to live but decided to defy the odds...