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...Gould led arguments against scientific claims that IQ varies between races for genetic reasons. His 1982 book The Mismeasure of Man, which tried to debunk claims that IQ and race were linked, won the National Book Critics Circle Award...
...Gould’s success did not come without criticism that he let popular work overshadow his scholarly contributions. In an April 26 review of Structure of Evolutionary Theory in Science, SUNY-Stonybrook Professor Douglas J. Futuyma described Gould “as an object of professional controversy” and wrote, “It has been 25 years since his first and, until now, only book directed at his peers...
...Gould has served as president of the Paleontological Society, president of the American Association for Advancement of the Sciences and curator of Invertebrate Paleontology in Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology...
Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 wrote in an e-mail that Gould “had extraordinary breadth of interest and a fantastic capacity to draw lessons from history and from tales of the development of science...
Lewis said he discussed baseball much more than science with Gould...