Summary Of The Measure Of Man By Jay Gould

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“Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.” A quote from Stephan Jay Gould. Gould was an American paleontologist, a biologist, and a historian of science. A paleontologist is a scientist who studies the fossil remains of life. A biologists is a scientist who studies living organisms. A historian of science is the study of the development of science and scientific knowledge. Gould was born in Bayside, New York in September of 1941. He attended Antioch college in Yellow springs, Ohio and graduated with a double major in geology and philosophy in 1963. He went to graduate school in evolutionary biology and paleontology at Columbia …show more content…
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

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