- Achieved popular renown unprecedented among scientific peers, exemplified by his depiction on "The Simpsons."
- Professor of evolutionary biology at Harvard University
- Two months before death, Harvard University Press published his 1,433-page "The Structure of Evolutionary Theory", the product of over 30 years of research, which synthesizes Darwinian theories with his own views of macroevolutionary.
- Son of court stenographer Leonard Gould and Eleanor Gould, artist and entrepreneur.
- Graduate of Jamaica High School, with BS in biology from Antioch College, Ohio, 1963, and Ph.D in paleontology from Columbia University, 1967.
- Taught at Harvard, 1967 to death in 2002, rising to final post as Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard; also served as Astor Visiting Research Professor of Biology at New York University.
- Winner of National Book and National Book Critics Circle awards.
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