They are, in the opinion of no less an authority than the paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, “the world’s most important animal fossils”—not Tyrannosaurus rex, not Lucy, but a collection of ...

The tacit approval of a race science conference at UT, alongside the large-scale defunding and muzzling of American science, marks a very dark chapter.

Her ideas were met with skepticism. Punctuated equilibrium, proposed in 1972 by paleontologists Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould, had already shaken up evolutionary biology by suggesting that ...

Consider this quote from the late Stephen Jay Gould, a paleontologist and one of the most celebrated and widely-read scholars in modern history: “I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and ...

And while its scientific roster includes such luminaries as National Institutes of Health director Harold Varmus, Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, and vaccine pioneer Jonas Salk, the academy ...

In 1989, paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould popularized Burgess' "weird wonders" in his bestselling book Wonderful Life. But he argued that Walcott had erroneously shoehorned the fossils into ...