This book portrays how flamingos feed with their heads upside down, insects eat their mates, the diversity of land snails, nuclear winter, and mass extinctions. Gould also wrote on the misuse of intelligence testing. He stated that human intelligence has a spot in the brain that can be measured by a standard number score. However, he also said labeling groups as inferior or superior intelligence based on those measurements would be a misuse of scientific data and the scientific process. Gould wrote all this in his nineteen eighty-one book, The Mismeasure of Man. Gould's theory is that there is no such thing as intelligence, only the qualities we think are evidence of intellect which are mostly defined by …show more content…
Seeing a Tyrannosaurus Rex for the first time in a museum set his path to a bright future. In fact, Gould himself said, “I dreamed of becoming a scientist, in general, and a paleontologist, in particular, ever since the Tyrannosaurus skeleton awed and scared me.” While he was a college student, he played a part in the civil rights movement and went to campaigns for social justice. He often spoke and wrote about being against cultural oppression, racism, and sexism. Gould got married in 1965 to Deborah Lee. They met at Antioch College when they were both students. Together they had two sons, Jesse and Ethan. After their divorce he married Rhonda Roland Shearer in 1995. He became the stepfather to her two children, Jade and London Allen. Stephan was a National Science Foundation grantee. He was also a member of the American Association for the advancement of Science, American Society of Naturalists, Paleontological Society, Society for the study of Evolution, Society of the Systematic Zoology, and Sigma Xi. In 1982, Stephan Gould was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer called mesothelioma. Mesothelioma is a tumor found in the tissues that line the lungs, stomach, heart, and other organs. He was treated and recovered. Later he was diagnosed with different type of cancer, metastatic adenocarcinoma, which started in his lung and spread to his brain. He died on May twentieth in