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Evolution as Fact and Theory?rnby Stephen Jay Gouldrnhttp://www.stephenjaygould.org/librar...rnrnrn"Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day".rnrnStephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 -- May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation, which led many authors to call him "America's unofficial evolutionist laureate." He spent most of his career teaching at Harvard University and working at the American Museum of Natural History. Early in his career he developed with Niles Eldredge the theory of punctuated equilibrium, where evolutionary change occurs relatively rapidly to comparatively longer periods of evolutionary stability. According to Gould, punctuated equilibrium overthrew a key pillar of neo-Darwinism. Some evolutionary biologists have argued that the theory was an important insight, but merely modified neo-Darwinism in a manner which was fully compatible with what had been known before.rnrnGould is perhaps best known for his book, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory (2002), his massive opus which begs a new look at natural selection with the full weight of history behind it. Gould's other books include Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (1990), Ever Since Darwin: Reflections on Natural History (1992), Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History (1992), The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History (1992), Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes (1994), The Mismeasure of Man (1996), Full House : The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin (1997), The Book of Life: An Illustrated History of the Evolution of Life on Earth (2001), Rocks