![]() ![]() He was also Vincent Astor Visiting Research Professor of Biology at New York University. ![]() At Harvard he held the titles Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and Professor of Geology. ![]() Gould began teaching at Harvard University in 1967 where he spent his entire career. Rose Honorary Curator in the Museum's Division of Paleontology. His association with the Museum continued with his regular contributions to Natural History magazine between 19, resulting in over 300 essays, many of which were collected in books such as Ever Since Darwin and Bully for Brontosaurus. The theory argues that evolutionary history is a pattern of rapid shifts followed by stasis rather than a slow and steady process of change. As a student he also began a lifelong collaboration with Niles Eldredge, Curator Emeritus in the Division of Paleontology, on the theory of punctuated equilibrium. Gould's long-standing association with the Museum began as a doctoral student in the joint American Museum-Columbia University program working under the advisement of the eminent paleontologist and Museum Curator Norman Newell. The Museum mourns the death of Stephen Jay Gould, among the most influential paleontologists and evolutionary biologists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.ĭr. ![]()
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