Stephen J. Gould

Looking for a place to start researching Gould's life? This biography at the Stanford Presidential Lectures and Symposia in the Humanities and Arts pages is a great starting point. You'll also find a photo and some links there.

Here's a brief bio from Encyclopedia.com that contains a few hyperlinks.

Want to do some additional biographical research? Try the Google.com web directory for Gould.

Here's an essay of Gould's called "Darwinian Fundamentalism" from The New York Review of Books. The title is a play on words. What does it mean?

In the early 1980s Gould battled abdominal mesothelioma, a particularly horrible asbestos-related cancer. Read more about it at Phoenix5.org.

Here's a chat first published in the New York Times about Gould's work Ontogeny and Phylogeny and his fondness for airline coffee cups. (Free registration required.)

Interested in evolution, but unsure how to narrow the topic? These links, courtesy of Harvard University, should give you plenty of good ideas.

For an opposing view, take a look at this page about the evolution controversy.

Into dinosaurs? Take a look at The Dinosauria, a site at U.C. Berkeley that dispels dinosaur myths and features special exhibits.

Did your reading of Gould's work whet your appetite for more information about natural science? The Academy of Natural Sciences offers a wealth of information, starting at its homepage.