Stephen Jay Gould Research Paper
Carol Li
October 1, 2014
Period 3
Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould was born on September 10, 1941 the son of Leonard and Eleanor Gould. His father was a court reporter and part-time, unpaid naturalist. Leonard Gould was a self-taught man who took his son to the American Museum of Natural History when the boy was five years old. It was there where Gould decided to devote his life to studying geologic periods. Gould was reading about evolution by age eleven. In high school he encountered the ongoing battle between creationism and evolution as Darwin explained it. After attending Antioch College and graduate school at Columbia University, he became a professor at Harvard. He spent much time trying to make science understandable to untrained
October 1, 2014
Period 3
Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould was born on September 10, 1941 the son of Leonard and Eleanor Gould. His father was a court reporter and part-time, unpaid naturalist. Leonard Gould was a self-taught man who took his son to the American Museum of Natural History when the boy was five years old. It was there where Gould decided to devote his life to studying geologic periods. Gould was reading about evolution by age eleven. In high school he encountered the ongoing battle between creationism and evolution as Darwin explained it. After attending Antioch College and graduate school at Columbia University, he became a professor at Harvard. He spent much time trying to make science understandable to untrained