In Memoriam: Jay Stephen Keystone (1943–2019)

The Worldviews of Stephen Jay

The Academic Nature of Worldviews ................................................................................ 1 Pre-Darwinian Worldviews ................................................................................................ 2 Darwin’s Worldview ........................................................................................................... 5 Mendel, Population Genetics...

Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002)

Stephen Jay Gould [3] studied snail fossils and worked at Harvard University [4] in Cambridge, Massachusetts during the latter half of the twentieth century. He contributed to philosophical, historical, and scientific ideas in paleontology, evolutionary theory, and developmental biology. Gould, with Niles Eldredge, proposed the theory of punctuated equilibrium, a view of evolution [5] by which ...

Stephen Jay Gould on intelligence.

In The Mismeasure of Man (1981) Stephen Jay Gould provides a typically readable history of one of our most vexatious intellectual enterprises: the scientific study of intelligence. Gould is successful, as always, in rendering the relevant scientific debates accessible to general readers. What Gould does less well is to carry through his attack on prior attempts to understand natural intelligenc...

In memoriam: Stephen F. Lowry, MD, MBA.

Ontogeny and Phylogeny (1977), by Stephen Jay Gould

Ontogeny and Phylogeny [12] is a book published in 1977, in which the author Stephen J. Gould, who worked in the US, tells a history of the theory of recapitulation. A theory of recapitulation aims to explain the relationship between the embryonic development of an organism (ontogeny [13]) and the evolution [14] of that organism's species (phylogeny [15]). Although there are several variations ...