Stephen Jay Gould was born on September 10, 1941 and died on May 20, 2002 he was raised in the community of Bayside, a neighborhood of the northeastern section of Queens in New York City. Gould was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science, he was one of the most influential writer of popular science in his generation. Gould main career was teaching at Harvard University while he worked at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. In 1996 Gould was appointed as the Vincent Astor Visiting Research Professor of Biology at New York University, he divided his time teaching there and at Harvard.
Stephen Gould's most significant contribution to evolutionary biology was the theory of punctuated equilibrium.
Stephen Gould's most significant contribution to evolutionary biology was the theory of punctuated equilibrium.