Stephen Jay Gould Audio & Video

We have always identified trends as bad (loosening of the moral fiber) or good (better ethnic eating...

Professor Gould talked about his new book, Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin, published by Harmony Books, which is about the nature of progress and excellence.

In this essay collection, Stephen Jay Gould examines the puzzles and paradoxes great and small...

High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale.

With sales of well over one million copies in North America alone, the commercial success of Gould's books now matches their critical acclaim. The Panda's Thumb will introduce a new generation to this unique writer, who has taken the art of the scientific essay to new heights.

On November 14, 1996, The John Adams Institute hosted an evening with Stephen Jay Gould, professor of zoology and geology at Harvard University.

Provocative and delightfully discursive essays on natural history . . . Gould is the Stan Musial of essay writing. He can work himself into a corkscrew of ideas and improbable allusions paragraph after paragraph and then...

From paleontology, dinosaurs, and fossils to the fascinating and strange phenomena of life on Earth...

Over a century after Darwin published the Origin of Species, Darwinian theory is in a "vibrantly healthy state," writes Stephen Jay Gould, its most engaging and illuminating exponent.

When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people....