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Stephen Jay Gould
A Life’s Work in Biology & Society

A Display and Readers’ Shelf

Promoting the libraries' collections and the leisure of books and reading,
the Reference Department presents "Biological Sciences and Stephen Jay Gould".
Currently in the New Books Area at Meyer Library Fall 2002.

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Stephen Jay Gould. Life & Work: 1941 - 2002

“Stephen Jay Gould, 60, Harvard University paleontologist and evolutionary theorist who was also the author of a popular column, "This View of Life," which ran in Natural History magazine from 1974 to 2001; many of those columns were incorporated into various best-selling books; as a scientist, he was perhaps best known for his theory of "punctuated equilibria," developed with Niles Eldredge in the early 1970s, which argued that evolutionary change came in sudden spurts rather than gradually; one of his books, The Mismeasure of Man (1981), was an influential rebuttal of the argument that some races were more intelligent than others; he had recently published a massive tome, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, which he considered his masterpiece; born September 10, 1941 in New York City; died May 20 at his home in New York, of lung cancer.”

From "Deaths: Stephen Jay Gould.” Facts On File World News Digest, 23 May 2002. FACTS.com. Duane G. Meyer Library, Springfield, MO. September 12, 2002 http://purl.missouristate.edu/library/databases/FACTS:

For more see "Stephen Jay Gould." DISCovering Science. Gale Research, 1996. Reproduced in Discovering Collection. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale Group. December, 2000.. Accessed September 2, 2002 < http://purl.missouristate.edu/library/databases/DISCOVERING>. Type “Stephen Jay Gould” in the Enter a subject box.

For further material, try using Expanded Academic ASAP on InfoTrac. Run a Subject Guide search on “Stephen Jay Gould”. [Subject InfoMark]

Books & Contributions

Gould, Stephen J. An Evolutionary Microcosm: Pleistocene and Recent History of the Land Snail P. (Poecilozonites) in Bermuda. Cambridge, Mass., 1969. Available via MOBIUS

Eldredge, Niles, and Stephen J Gould. "Punctuated Equilibria: An Alternative to Phyletic Gradualism." In Models in Paleobiology, ed. Thomas J. M. Schopf, 82-115. San Francisco: Freeman, Cooper, 1972. Available via MOBIUS

Gould, Stephen J. Ever since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History. New York: Norton, 1977. SMS Meyer General QH361. G65 1977

Gould, Stephen J. Ontogeny and Phylogeny. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1977. SMS Meyer General QH371 .G68

Gould, Stephen J. "Eternal Metaphors of Paleontology." In Patterns of Evolution as Illustrated by the Fossil Record, ed. Anthony Hallam, 1-26. Amsterdam; New York: Elsevier, 1977. SMS Meyer General QE721 .P34

Gould, Stephen J. The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History. New York: Norton, 1980. SMS Meyer General QH361 .G66 1980

Gould, Stephen J. The Mismeasure of Man. New York: Norton, 1981. SMS Meyer General BF431 .G68 1981

Gould, Stephen J. Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes. New York: Norton, 1983. SMS Meyer General QH366.2 .G66 1983

Gould, Stephen J. The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History. New York: Norton, 1985. SMS Meyer General QH81 .G673 1985

Purcell, Rosamond Wolff, and Stephen J Gould. Illuminations : A Bestiary. New York: Norton, 1986. SMS Meyer General QL46 .P87 1986

Gould, Stephen J. Evolution and Human Equality. Videocassette. Cambridge, MA: Insight Video, 1987. SMS Meyer AV Video cassette N562

Gould, Stephen J. Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geologic Time. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987. SMS Meyer General QE508 .G68 1987

Gould, Stephen J. An Urchin in the Storm: Essays About Books and Ideas. New York: W.W. Norton, 1987. SMS Meyer General QH311 .G68 1987

Gould, Stephen J. "G.G. Simpson, Paleontology, and the Modern Synthesis." In The Evolutionary Synthesis : Perspectives on the Unification of Biology, ed. Ernst Mayr. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988. Available via MOBIUS (1980 edition in Meyer: QH 366.2 E87)

Gould, Stephen J. Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History. New York: W.W. Norton, 1989. SMS Meyer General QE770 .G67 1989

Gould, Stephen J. The Individual in Darwin's World: The Second Edinburgh Medal Address. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1990. Available via MOBIUS

Gould, Stephen Jay. Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History. New York: Norton, 1991. SMS Meyer General QH45.5 G68 1991

Gould, Stephen J, ed. The Book of Life. New York: Norton, 1993. SMS Meyer General QH325.B65 1993

Gould, Stephen J. Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History. New York: Norton, 1993. SMS Meyer General QH45.5 G7 1993

Gould, Stephen J. Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History. New York: Harmony Books, 1995. SMS Meyer General QH366.2 G659 1995

Gould, Stephen J. Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin. New York: Harmony Books, 1996. SMS Meyer General QH366.2 .G6594x 1996

Gould, Stephen J. Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History. New York: Harmony Books, 1998. SMS Meyer General QH81 .G67323 1998

Gould, Stephen J. Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown. Revised ed. New York: Harmony Books, 1999. SMS Meyer General CB161 .G67 1999

Gould, Stephen J. Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life. New York: Ballantine Pub. Group, 1999. SMS Meyer General BL240.2 .G68 1999

Gould, Stephen J. I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History. New York: Harmony Books, 2002. SMS Meyer General QH45.5 .G725 2002

Gould, Stephen J. The Structure of Evolutionary Theory. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002. SMS Meyer General QH366.2 .G663 2002

Selection of Popular Pieces

Gould, Stephen J. "Ladders, Bushes, and Human Evolution." Natural History 85, no. 4 (1976): 24-31. SMS Meyer Periodical QH1 .N13

Gould, Stephen J. "The Lesson of the Dinosaurs: Evolution Didn't Inevitably Lead to Us." Discover, March 1987, 51. SMS Meyer Microform Fiche Q1 .D58x

Gould, Stephen J. "Darwinism Defined: The Difference between Fact and Theory." Discover, January 1987, 64-. SMS Meyer Microform Fiche Q1 .D58x

Gould, Stephen J. "The Home Run Heard 'Round the World: The Dramatic Story of the 1951 Giants-Dodgers Pennant Race. (Book Review)." The New York Review of Books, October 24 1991, 47-. SMS Meyer Microform Fiche AP2 .N655

Gould, Stephen J. "The Evolution of Life on the Earth." Scientific American 271, no. 4 (1994): 85-91. SMS Meyer Periodical T1 .S5

Gould, Stephen J. "The Athlete of the Century.(Jim Thorpe)." American Heritage, October 1998, 14-. SMS Meyer Periodical E171 .A43

Gould, Stephen J. "On Embroyos and Ancestors: Fossils of Tiny Embryos 570 Million Years Old May Well Be the Greatest Paleontological Discovery of Our Time." Natural History, July-August 1998, 20-. SMS Meyer Periodical QH1 .N13

Gould, Stephen J. "A Time of Gifts. (Appreciation of the Myriad Acts of Kindness by Americans Who Did Things to Help the Workers and Volunteers at the World Trade Center)." New York Times, September 26 2001, A23.

Gould, Stephen J. "Baseball's Reliquary: The Oddly Possible Hybrid of Shrine and University. (History of Baseball and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum)." Natural History, March 2002, 56-. SMS Meyer Periodical QH1 .N13

Gould, Stephen Jay. "Ground Zero.(Editorial)." The Antioch Review, Winter 2002, 150-. SMS Meyer Periodical AP2 .A562

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Selection of Scholarly Work

Gould, Stephen J. "Allometric Fallacies and the Evolution of Gryphaea." Evolutionary biology 6 (1972): 91-119. SMS Meyer General QH366.A1 E9.

Gould, Stephen J., and Niles Eldredge. "Punctuated Equilibria: The Tempo and Mode of Evolution Reconsidered." Paleobiology 3, no. 2 (1977): 115-151. SMS Meyer Periodical QE701 .P17

Gould, Stephen J., and David S. Woodruff. "Natural History of Cerion Viii. Little Bahama Bank: A Revision Based on Genetics, Morphometrics, and Geographic Distribution." Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 148, no. 2 (1978): 371-415. Not in Meyer Library. See MOBIUS.

Gould, Stephen J., and C. Bradford Calloway. "Clams and Brachiopods: Ships That Pass in the Night." Paleobiology 6, no. 4 (1980): 383-396. SMS Meyer Periodical QE701 .P17

Woodruff, David S., and Stephen J. Gould. "Geographic Differentiation and Speciation in Cerion: A Preliminary Discussion of Patterns and Processes." Biological journal of the Linnean Society 14?, no. 314? (1980): 389-416. SMS Meyer Periodical QH1.L632a

Gould, Stephen J., Nelson D. Young, and Bill Kasson. "The Consequences of Being Different: Sinistral Coiling in Cerion." Evolution 39, no. 6 (1985): 1364-1379. SMS Meyer Periodical QH301 .S753

Woodruff, David S., and Stephen J. Gould. "Fifty Years of Interspecific Hybridization: Genetics and Morphometrics of a Controlled Experiment on the Land Snail Cerion in the Florida Keys." Evolution 41, no. 5 (1987): 1022-1045. SMS Meyer Periodical QH301 .S753

Gould, Stephen J. "Constraint and the Square Snail: Life at the Limits of a Covariance Set. The Normal Teratology of Cerion Disforme." Biological journal of the Linnean Society 47, no. 4 (1992): 407-437. SMS Meyer Periodical QH1 .L632a

Gould, Stephen J., and Niles Eldredge. "Punctuated Equilibrium Comes of Age." Nature 366, no. 6452 (1993): 223-227. SMS Meyer Periodical Q1 .N2

Lloyd, Elisabeth A, and Stephen J. Gould. "Species Selection on Variability." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 90, no. 2 (1993): 595-599. SMS Meyer Periodical Q11 .N26

Gould, Stephen J. "The Promotion and Prevention of Recoiling in a Maximally Snail-Like Vermetid Gastropod: A Case Study for the Centenary of Dollo's Law." Paleobiology 20, no. 3 (1994): 368-390. SMS Meyer Periodical QE701 .P17

Gould, Stephen J. "Ernst Mayr and the Centrality of Species." Evolution 48, no. 1 (1994): 31-35. SMS Meyer Periodical QH301 .S753

Gould, Stephen J. "Tempo and Mode in the Macroevolutionary Reconstruction of Darwinism." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 91, no. 15 (1994): 6764-6771. SMS Meyer Periodical Q11 .N26

Goodfriend, Glenn A., and Stephen J. Gould. "Paleontology and Chronology of Two Evolutionary Transitions by Hybridization in the Bahamian Land Snail Cerion." Science 274, no. 5294 (1996): 1894-1897. SMS Meyer Periodical Q1 .S34x

Gould, Stephen J. "Gulliver's Further Travels: The Necessity and Difficulty of a Hierarchical Theory of Selection." Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 353, no. 1366 (1998): 307-314. Volume of this journal not available in Meyer

Gould, Stephen J., and Elisabeth A Lloyd. "Individuality and Adaptation across Levels of Selection: How Shall We Name and Generalize the Unit of Darwinism?" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 96, no. 21 (1999): 11904-11909. SMS Meyer Periodical Q11 .N26

Jones, Douglas S., and Stephen J. Gould. "Direct Measurement of Age in Fossil Gryphaea: The Solution to a Classic Problem in Heterochrony." Paleobiology 25, no. 2 (1999): 158-187. SMS Meyer Periodical QE701 .P17

Gould, Stephen J. "Beyond Competition." Paleobiology 26, no. 1 (2000): 1-6. SMS Meyer Periodical QE701 .P17

"Stephen Jay Gould (Obituary)." The Economist, May 25-31 2002, 85. SMS Meyer Microform Fiche HG11 .E2. [Also available full text on Expanded Academic ASAP: InfoMark]

Adler, Jerry. " Evolution's Revolutionary: Stephen Jay Gould, paleontologist: 1941-2002." Newsweek, June 3 2002, 59.[SMS Meyer Microform Fiche AP2 .N6772. [Also available full text on Expanded Academic ASAP: InfoMark]

Hayden, Thomas. "The Evolution of a Wonderful Life." U.S. News & World Report, June 3 2002, 15. SMS Meyer Microform Fiche JK 1 .U65. [Also available full text on Expanded Academic ASAP: InfoMark]

Mirsky, Steve. "Stephen Jay Gould, 1941-2002." Scientific American, August 2002, 28. SMS Meyer Periodical T1.S5. [Also available full text on Expanded Academic ASAP: InfoMark]

The Writing of Science

Locke, David. Science as Writing. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992. SMS Meyer General Q225.5 .L63 1992

McRae, Murdo William, ed. The Literature of Science: Perspectives on Popular Scientific Writing. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1993. SMS Meyer General Q225 .L58 1993

Selzer, Jack , ed. Understanding Scientific Prose. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993. SMS Meyer General QH371.G6843 U53 1993

Gross, Alan G., Joseph E. Harmon, and Michael Reidy. Communicating Science: The Scientific Article from the 17th Century to the Present. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. SMS Meyer General Q225.5 .G79 2002

Biological Sciences

Beckmann, Poul. Living Jewels : The Natural Design of Beetles. Munich : New York: Prestel, 2001. SMS Meyer Folio  QL575 .B42 2001

Camazine, Scott...et al. Self-Organization in Biological Systems. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2001. SMS Meyer General QH313 .S477 2001

Comfort, Nathaniel C. The Tangled Field : Barbara Mcclintock's Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. SMS Meyer General QH429.2.M38 C66 2001

Crawford, Dorothy H. The Invisible Enemy : A Natural History of Viruses. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. SMS Meyer General QR364 .C73 2000

Crump, Thomas. A Brief History of Science : As Seen through the Development of Scientific Instruments. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2001. SMS Meyer General Q125 .C78 2001

Duffy, Patricia Lynne. Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens : How Synesthetes Color Their Worlds. New York: Times Books, 2001. SMS Meyer General  BF497 .D84 2001

Eldredge, Niles. The Pattern of Evolution. New York: W.H. Freeman, 1999. SMS Meyer General  QH366.2 .E525 1999

Flannery, Tim F. (Tim Fridtjof). A Gap in Nature : Discovering the World's Extinct Animals. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001. SMS Meyer General QL88 .F54 2001

Henig, Robin Marantz. The Monk in the Garden : The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. SMS Meyer General  QH31.M45 H464 2000

Holmes, Frederic Lawrence. Meselson, Stahl, and the Replication of DNA : A History of "the Most Beautiful Experiment in Biology ". New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001. SMS Meyer General QP624 .H654 2001

Jones, Steve. Darwin's Ghost : The Origin of Species Updated. New York: Random House, 2000. SMS Meyer General  QH375 .J66 2000

Lewontin, Richard C. The Triple Helix : Gene, Organism, and Environment. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. SMS Meyer General  QH506 .L443 2000

Mataré, Herbert F. (Herbert Franz). Bioethics : The Ethics of Evolution and Genetic Interference. Westport, Conn.: Bergin & Garvey, 1999. SMS Meyer General QH332 .M38 1999

Mayr, Ernst. What Evolution Is. New York: Basic Books, 2001. SMS Meyer General QH366.2 .M3933 2001

Moyal, Ann Mozley. Platypus : The Extraordinary Story of How a Curious Creature Baffled the World. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001. SMS Meyer General QL737.M72 M68 2001

Schwartz, Jeffrey H. Sudden Origins : Fossils, Genes, and the Emergence of Species. New York: Wiley, 1999. SMS Meyer General  QH366.2 .S386 1999

Stansfield, William D. Death of a Rat : Understandings and Appreciations of Science. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Book, 2000. SMS Meyer General QH309 .S78 2000

Weissmann, Gerald. The Year of the Genome : A Diary of the Biological Revolution. New York: Times Books, 2002. SMS Meyer General R852 .W45 2002

Wells, Jonathan. Icons of Evolution : Science or Myth? : Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution Is Wrong. Washington, DC: Regnery Pub., 2000. SMS Meyer General QH366.2 .W45 2000

Wilkins, A. S. (Adam S.). The Evolution of Developmental Pathways. Sunderland, Mass.: Sinauer Associates, 2002. SMS Meyer General QH491 .E964 2002

Thanks and appreciation to the faculty from the SMSU Department of Biology for display materials and suggestions.
Prepared by Charlotte Dugan, Reference/Collection Resources Librarian, and Douglas Stehle, Head of Reference. September 18, 2002
Duane G. Meyer Library Reference & Government Information Department
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