This article appears in the March 2025 print edition with the headline “Capitulation Is Contagious.” ...

In the 1970s, a crop of books purporting to provide a scientific basis for gender inequality met sharp criticism from figures like Stephen Jay Gould. Decades later, these debates have fallen out of ...

The concept of punctuated equilibrium was, to some, a radical new idea when it was first proposed by Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge in 1972. Now it is widely recognized as a useful model for ...

Nicholas, Tom, John Masko, and Matthew G. Preble. "Jay Gould, 'The Most Hated Man in America'." Harvard Business School Case 819-006, January 2019. (Revised February 2020.) ...

Here was the cartoon legendary illustrator Puck came up with. Source: Life of Jay Gould Fisk and Gould also brought market pressure to bear. By one account, in order to increase traffic on the ...

A startup founded by former Meta researchers is creating an alternative evolutionary path using the most powerful ...

At the root of the scandal were two well-known scoundrels, Jay Gould and Jim Fisk. The two financiers had worked together in 1868, when they used stock fraud and bribery to keep Cornelius ...

Couce, born in the Spanish town of Irixoa, cites a famous thought experiment proposed by paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould in his 1989 book Wonderful Life. If you could rewind the Earth back ...

Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science.