Gould, S. J. 1977. Ontogeny
and Phylogeny. Cambridge MA: Harvard Univ. Press.
1977. Ever
Since Darwin. New York: W. W. Norton.
1980. The
Panda's Thumb. New York: W. W. Norton.
1980. The
Evolution of Gryphaea. New York: Ayer Publishing.
1981. The
Mismeasure of Man. New York: W. W. Norton.
1983. Hen's
Teeth and Horse's Toes. New York: W. W. Norton.
1985. The
Flamingo's Smile. New York: W. W. Norton.
1987. Time's
Arrow, Time's Cycle. Cambridge MA: Harvard Univ. Press.
1987. An
Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas. N.Y.: W. W. Norton
1989. Wonderful
Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History. New York: W. W. Norton, 347 pp.
1991. Bully
for Brontosaurus. New York: W. W. Norton, 540 pp.
1992. Finders,
Keepers: Eight Collectors. New York: W. W. Norton.
1993. Eight
Little Piggies. New York: W. W. Norton.
1993. The Book
of Life. Preface, pp. 6-21. New York: W. W. Norton (S. J. Gould general editor, 10 contributors).
1995. Dinosaur
in a Haystack. New York: Harmony Books.
1996. Full
House: The Spread of Excellence From Plato to Darwin. New York: Harmony Books.
1997. Questioning
the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown. New York: Harmony Books.
1998. Leonardo's
Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms. N.Y.: Harmony Books.
1999. Rocks
of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life. New York: Ballantine
Publications.
2000. The
Lying Stones of Marrakech. New York: Harmony Books.
2000. Crossing
Over: Where Art and Science Meet. New York: Three Rivers Press.
2002. The Structure
of Evolutionary Theory. Cambridge MA: Harvard Univ. Press.
2002. I Have
Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History. New York: Harmony Books.
2003. Triumph
and Tragedy in Mudville: A Lifelong Passion for Baseball. New York: W. W. Norton.
2003. The
Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox. New York: Harmony Books.
[ Book reviews ]
Selected Papers
Gould, S. J. 1965. Is uniformitarianism necessary? Amer. Jour.
Sci. 263: 223-28.
1966. Allometry and size in ontogeny and phylogeny. Biol.
Rev. 41: 587-640.
1967. Evolutionary patterns in pelycosaurian reptiles.
Evolution 21: 385-401. 
1968. Ontogeny and the explanation of form: an allometric analysis. In D. B. Macurda, ed., Paleontological
aspects of growth and development, a symposium. Paleont. Soc. Memoir 2 (J. of
Paleontology 42 (5), suppl.), 81-98. 
1969. An evolutionary microcosm: Pleistocene and Recent history of
the land snail P. (Poecilozonites) in Bermuda. Bull. Mus.
Comp. Zool. 138: 407-532.
1970. Evolutionary paleontology and the science of form.
Earth-Sci. Rev. 6: 77-119.
1970. Private thoughts of Lyell on progression and evolution.
Science 169: 663-664
1971. D'Arcy Thompson and the science of form. New. Literary.
Hist. 2: 229-258. 
1971. Muscular
mechanics and the ontogeny of swimming in scallops. Palaeontology 14 (March): 61-94.
1971. Geometric
similarity in allometric growth. American Naturalist 105 (Mar-Apr.): 113-136.
1972. Allometric fallacies and the evolution of Gryphaea.
In T. Dobzhansky et al., eds., Evol. Biology 6: 91-118.
1973. The misnamed, mistreated, and misunderstood Irish elk.
Natural History. 82 (March): 10-19.
1974.
Size and
shape. Natural History 83 (January): 20-26.
1974. The origin and function of "bizarre" structures: antler size and skull
size in the "Irish Elk" Megaloceros giganteus. Evolution 28: 191-220.
1974. On biological and social determinism. Hist. Sci.
12: 212-20.
1974. Allometry in primates, with emphasis on scaling and the evolution of
the brain. In Approaches to Primate Paleobiology, Contrib. Primatol.
5: 244-292.
1975. Velikovsky in collision.
Natural History 84 (March): 20-26.
1975. Darwin's big book. Science 188 (May 23): 824-826.
1975. Allometry in primates, with emphasis on scaling and the evolution
of the brain. In F. Szalay, ed., Approaches to Primate Paleobiology.
Basel: Karger, Vol. 5, pp. 244-92.
1976. Darwin's untimely burial.
Natural History 85 (October): 24-30.
1977. Evolution's erratic pace. Natural History 86 (May): 12-16.
1977. The
return of hopeful monsters. Natural History 86 (June/July): 22-30.

1977. Eternal metaphors of paleontology.
In A. Hallam, Patterns of Evolution as Illustrated by the Fossil Record, Amsterdam, Elsevier, pp. 1-26.
1978. Sociobiology:
the art of storytelling. New Scientist 80 (1129): 530-533.

1978. Episodic change versus gradualist dogma. Science and
Nature 2: 5-12.
1978. Were dinosaurs dumb? New Scientist 87 (July): 266-267.
1978. On the importance of heterochrony for evolutionary biology. Systematic Zoology
28 (2): 224-226. 
1978. The great Scablands debate. Natural History 87 (7): 12-18.
1978. Women’s brains. Natural History 87 (8): 44–50.
1978. Flaws in the Victorian veil. New Scientist 82 (Aug. 31): 632-633.
1978. When the unorthodox prevails. New Scientist 82 (Sept. 28): 942-943.
1978. The
panda's peculiar thumb. Natural History 87 (November): 20-30.

1979.
Piltdown
revisited. Natural History 88 (March): 86-97.
1979. Mickey
Mouse meets Konrad Lorenz. Natural History 88 (May): 30-36.

1979. Shades
of Lamarck. Natural History 88 (Aug.): 22-28.
1979. Species are not specious. New Scientist 83 (Aug. 2): 374-76.
1979. The Upright Ape. New Scientist 83 (Sept. 6): 738-739.
1980.
The
Piltdown conspiracy. Natural History 89 (Aug.): 8-28.
1980. The promise of paleobiology as a nomothetic, evolutionary discipline.
Paleobiology 6 (1): 96-118. 
1980. Is a new and general theory of evolution emerging?
Paleobiology 6 (1): 119-130.
1980. The evolutionary biology of constraint. Daedalus 109 (2): 39-53. 
1980. Sociobiology and the theory of natural selection. In G. W. Barlow
and J. Silverberg, eds., Sociobiology: Beyond Nature/Nurture? Boulder CO:
Westview Press, pp. 257-269.
1980. G. G. Simpson, Paleontology and the Modern Synthesis. In: E. Mayr
and W. B. Provine, eds., The
Evolutionary Synthesis. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 153-172.
1981.
Piltdown
in letters. Natural History 90 (June): 12-30.
1981. Evolution as fact and theory.
Discover 2 (May): 34-37.
1981. Agassiz in the Galapagos. Natural History 90 (December): 7-14.
1982. Nonmoral nature.
Natural History 91 (February): 19-26.
1982. Genesis
vs. Geology. The Atlantic Monthly 250 (3): 10-17.
1982. Darwinism
and the expansion of evolutionary theory. Science 216 (April 23): 380-387.
1982. A nation of morons. New Scientist 83 (May. 6): .
1982. Change in developmental timing as a mechanism of macroevolution. In
J. T. Bonner, ed., Evolution and Development. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp. 333-346.
1982. The uses of heresey;
an introduction to Richard Goldschmidt's "The Material Basis of Evolution," pp. xiii-xlii. New Haven: Yale University Press.
1982. The meaning of punctuated equilibrium and its role in validating a
hierarchical approach to macroevolution. In R. Milkman, ed., Perspectives on Evolution.
Sunderland MA: Sinauer Associates, pp. 83-104.
1982. The Hottentot Venus. Natural History 91 (10): 20–27.
1982. Introduction. In
Theodosius Dobzhansky, Genetics and the origin of species. New York: Columbia University Press, pp. xvii-xxxix.
1983.
The
hardening of the Modern Synthesis. In: Marjorie Grene, ed., Dimensions of Darwinism.
Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 71-93.
1983. Irrelevance, submission, and partnership: the changing role of
paleontology in Darwin's three centennials, and a modest proposal for macroevolution. In
D. S. Bendall, ed., Evolution
from Molecules to Men. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 347-366.
1984. The Ediacaran experiment.
Natural History 93 (2): 14-23.
1984. Carrie
Buck's daughter. Natural History 93 (7): 14-18.
1984. Toward the vindication of punctuational change. In W. W. Berggren
and J. A. Van Couvering, eds., Catastrophes and Earth History. Princeton NJ:
Princeton University Press, pp. 9-34.
1984. Covariance sets and ordered geographic variation in Cerion from Aruba,
Bonaire and Curacao: a way of studying nonadaptation. Syst. Zool. 33 (2): 217-37.
1984. Challenges
to Neo-Darwinism and their meaning for a revised view of human consciousness. Tanner Lectures
on Human Values. Clare Hall, Cambridge University, pp. 55-73.
1985. The
median isn't the message. Discover 6 (June): 40-42.
1985. Not necessarily a wing.
Natural History 94 (October): 12-25.
1985. The paradox of
the first tier: an agenda for paleobiology. Paleobiology 11 (June): 2-12.
1986. Evolution and the triumph of homology, or why history matters.
Amer. Scientist, January-February: 60-69.
1986. Play it again, life.
Natural History 95 (February): 18-26.
1986. Children's
books; still in my dinosaur phase. The New York Times (Oct. 12), Section 7; Page 36.
1987. Darwinism
defined: the difference between fact and theory. Discover 8 (January): 64-70.
1987. The lesson of the dinosaurs: evolution didn't inevitably lead to us. Discover (March).
1987. Life's
little joke. Natural History 96 (April): 16-25.
1987. The
terrifying normalcy of AIDS. New York Times Magazine 136 (April 19): 32.
1987. The
panda's thumb of technology. Natural History 96 (1): 14–23.
1987. Justice Scalia's misunderstanding.
Natural History 96 (October): 14-21.
1988. Trends as changes in
variance: a new slant on progress and directionality in evolution. Journal of
Paleontology 62 (2): 319-329.
1988. The ontogeny of Sewall Wright and the phylogeny of evolution.
Isis 79 (297): 273-281. 
1988. The streak of
streaks. New York Review of Books, August 18, pp. 8-12.
1988. Strike up the Choir!. New York Times magazine, Nov. 6, 100-103.
1989. An essay on a pig roast. Natural History 98 (January): 14-25.
1989. The wheel of fortune and the wedge of progress. Natural History 98 (March): 14-21.
1989. Tires to sandals. Natural History 98 (April): 8-15.
1989. George Canning's left
buttock and the origin of species. Natural History 98 (May): 18-23.
1989. The
creation myths of Cooperstown. Natural History 98 (November): 14-24.
1990.
The Golden Rulea
proper scale for our environmental crisis. Natural History 99 (September): 24-30.
1990.
Darwin and Paley meet the Invisible Hand.
Natural History 99 (Nov.): 8-16.
1991. Eight (or fewer) little piggies.
Natural History 100 (January): 22-29.
1991. Exaptation: a crucial tool for an evolutionary psychology.
Journal of Social Issues 47 (3): 43-65.
1991. The
disparity of the Burgess Shale arthropod fauna and the limits of cladistic analysis: why we must
strive to quantify morphospace. Paleobiology 17 (October): 411-423.
1991. Opus 200. Natural
History 100 (August): 12-19.
1991. Fall in the House of
Ussher. Natural History 100 (November): 12-21.
1992. The reversal of
Hallucigenia. Natural History 101 (January): 12-20.
1992. The paradox of genius. Nature 355 (January): 215-216.
1992. Impeaching a self-appointed
judge. Scientific American 267 (1): 118-121.
1992. Dinosaurs in
the haystack. Natural History 101 (March 1992): 2-13.
1992. Ontogeny and phylogenyrevisited and reunited. BioEssays
14 (April): 275-79.
1992. Eve
and her tree. Discover 13 (July): 32-33.
1992. Punctuated Equilibrium in Fact and Theory. In Albert Somit
and Steven Peterson, The
Dynamics of Evolution. New York: Cornell University Press, pp. 54-84.
1992. The confusion over
evolution. New York Review of Books, Nov. 19, pp. 47-54.
1992. "What is a species?: Endangered Species Act based on unclear scientific
definition. Discover 13 (December): 40-44.
1993. The inexorable logic of the punctuational paradigm: Hugo de Vries
on species selection. In Evolutionary Patterns and Processes. London: Linnean
Society, pp. 3-18.
1993. Fulfilling
the spandrels of world and mind. In Jack Selzer, ed.,
Understanding Scientific Prose. Madison, Wisc: University of Wisconsin Press, pp. 310-336
1993. How to analyze Burgess Shale disparitya reply to Ridley.
Paleobiology 19: 522-523.
1993. Dinomania.
New York Review of Books, 40 (August 12): 51-56.
1993. Cordelia's
dilemma. Natural History 102 (February): 10-18.
1993. Dinosaur Deconstruction. Discover 14 (October): 108-113.
1994. Ernst Mayr and the centrality of species. Evolution
48 (February): 31-35. 
1994.
Dousing
Diminutive Dennis's Debate. Natural History 103 (April): 4-10.
1994. Hooking Leviathan by its past.
Natural History 103 (May): 8-15.
1994.
Happy
thoughts on a sunny day in New York City. Natural History 103 (August): 10-17.
1994. Tempo
and mode in the macroevolutionary reconstruction on Darwinism. Proc.
Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 91 (15): 6764-6771.
1994. The evolution of
life on the earth. Scientific American 271 (Oct.): 85-91.

1994. The geometer
of race. Discover 15 (Nov.): 65-69.
1994.
Curveball.
The New Yorker 70 (Nov. 28): 139-149.
1995.
The pattern of life's
history. In John Brockman The Third Culture. New York: Simon & Schuster, pp. 52-64.
1995. Of tongue worms, velvet
worms, and water bears. Natural History 104 (January): 6-15.
1995. A task for Paleobiology at the threshold of majority.
Paleobiology 21 (January): 1-14. 
1995. In
the company of animals. Social Research. Vol. 63. No. 3.
1996. Creating the creators. Discover 17 (October): 42-54.
1996. Planet of the bacteria.
The Washington Post Horizon, November 13, p. H1.
1996.
The dodo and the caucus
race. Natural History 105 (Nov.): 22-33.
1997. Cope's Rule as psychological artefact. Nature 385: 199-200.
1997.
Self-help for a hedgehog
stuck on a molehill: struggle to inform the public about Darwinian evolution.
Evolution 51 (3): 1020-1023.
1997.
As
the worm turns. Natural History 106 (February).
1997.
Nonoverlapping
magisteria. Natural History 106 (March): 16-22.
1997.
Theory of the living earth.
Natural History 106 (May): 18-21, 58-64.
1997.
Kropotkin was no
crackpot. Natural History 106 (June): 12-21.
1997.
Drink
deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring. Natural History 106 (September): 24-25.
1997.
A
tale of two worksites. Natural History 106 (October): 18-22, 29, 62-68.
1997.
Room
of one's own. Natural History 106 (November): 22, 64-70.
1997.
The
paradox of the visibly irrelevant. Natural History 106 (Dec-Jan): 12-18, 60-66.
1997. Darwinian
Fundamentalism, part 1. New York Review of Books, June 12, pp. 34-37.
Evolution: The Pleasures of
Pluralism, part 2. New York Review of Books, June 26, pp. 47-52.
[Reprinted in Italian: Part
1, 2,
3.]
1997. The
exaptive excellence of spandrels as a term and prototype. Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences USA. 94: 10750-10755.

1997. An evolutionary
perspective on strengths, fallacies, and confusions in the concept of native plants.
In Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, Nature and Ideology, Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on
the History of Landscape Architecture, no. 18, pp. 11-19.
1997. Redrafting
the tree of life. Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 141 (1): 30-54.
1998. The
Great Asymmetry. Science 279 (February 6): 812-813.
1998.
Gulliver's
further travels: the necessity and difficulty of a hierarchical theory of selection.
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 353 (1366): 307-314.
1998. An awful,
terrible dinosaurian irony: Richard Owen, the "inventor" of dinosaurs, argued that their
existance refuted the idea of evolution. Natural History 107 (February): 24-26,
61-68.
1998.
The internal
brand of the scarlet W. Natural History 107 (March): 22-25, 70-78.
1998.
The
lying stones of Wurzburg and Marrakech. Natural History 107 (April): 16-21, 82-90.
1998.
The
sharp-eyed lynx, outfoxed by nature, part 1. Natural History 107 (May): 16-21, 70-72.
The
sharp-eyed lynx, outfoxed by nature, part 2. 107 (June): 23-27, 69-73.
1998.
On
embryos and ancestors: Fossils of tiny embryos 570 million years old may well be
the greatest paleontological discovery of our time. Natural History
(July/August): 20-22, 58-65.
1998.
Stretching to fit: how
life explores and colonizes the landscape of imaginable form. The Sciences 38 (July/August): 12-15.
1998.
Second-guessing
the future. Natural History 107 (September): 20-29, 64-66.
1998.
Above all, do no
harm. Natural History 107 (October): 16-24, 78-82.
1998. In Gratuitous Battle.
Civilization 5 (Oct./Nov.): 86-88.
1998.
Writing
in the margins, part 1. Natural History 107 (November): 16-20.
Capturing the
center: Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier's scientific contributions, part 2.
Natural History 107 (December): 14-25.
1999.
A division
of worms: Jean Baptiste Lamarck's contributions to evolutionary theory, part 1.
Natural History 108 (February): 18-22, 76-81.
Branching
through a wormhole, part 2. Natural History 108 (March): 24-27, 84-89.
1999.
Lyell's
pillars of wisdom, part 1. Natural History 108 (April): 28-34, 87-89.
Pozzuoli's
pillars revisited, part 2. Natural History 108 (May): 24, 81-91.
1999.
Bacon,
brought home: philosophy of Francis Bacon about natural world. Natural
History 108 (June): 28-33, 72-78.
1999. The
human difference. The New York Times (July 2): A8.
1999.
The
great physiologist of Heidelberg: Friedrich Tiedemann. Natural History 108
(July/Aug.): 26-29, 62-70.
1999. Dorothy, it's really Oz.
Time Magazine 154 (August 23): 59.
1999.
A Darwinian
gentleman at Marx's funeral. Nat. Hist. 108 (Sept.): 32-33, 56-66.
1999.
When
fossils were young. Natural History 108 (October): 24-26, 70-75.
1999.
Fiat money and booby birds. Forbes Magazine (October 11).
1999.
Boats
& deckchairs: Marcel Duchamp's optical illusions. Natural History 108
(December): 32-44.
2000. Deconstructing the "science wars"
by reconstructing an old mold. Science 287 (January 14): 253-261.
2000.
What does the
dreaded "E" word mean, anyway. Natural History 109 (February): 28-44.
2000. Beyond competition. Paleobiology 26: 1-6.

2000.
Abscheulich! (atrocious!):
Haeckel's distortions did not help Darwin. Nat. Hist. 109 (March): 42-49.
2000.
The first
day of the rest of our life. Nat. Hist. 109 (April): 32-38, 82-86.
2000.
Will we figure
out how life began? Time Magazine 155 (April 10): 92-93.
2000.
Jim
Bowie's letter & Bill Buckner's legs. Natural History 109 (May): 26-40.
2000.
The
Jew and the Jew Stone. Natural History 109 (June): 26-39.
2000.
The
Narthex of San Marco and the Pangenetic Paradigm. Natural History 109 (July/August): 24-37.
2000.
Linnaeus's
luck? Natural History 109 (September): 18-25, 66-76.
2000.
A taxonomist's taxonomist
Whole Earth (Fall): 53-58.
2000.
Syphilis
and the Shepherd of Atlantis. Nat. Hist. 109 (October): 38-42, 74-82.
2000. Only
human. Forbes Magazine (October 2).
2000.
Tales of
a feathered tail. Natural History 109 (Nov.): 32-42.
2000.
Indecision 2000: heads or
tails? The Boston Globe (November 30).
2000.
I have landed.
Natural History 109 (Dec./January): 46-59.
2000. The
evolutionary definition of selective agency, validation of the theory of hiearchichical selection, and
fallacy of the selfish gene. In Rama Shankar Singh, ed., Thinking about Evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 208-234.
2001. Humbled
by the genome's mysteries. New York Times Op-Ed. Feb 19.
2001. What
only the embryo knows. New York Times Op-Ed. August 27.
2001. September
11, 1901. <www.wtcgroundzerorelief.org> (September 11).
2001. A time
of gifts. New York Times Op-Ed. September 26.

2002.
Baseball's
reliquary. Natural History 111 (March): 56-60.
Co-authored Papers
Alberc, P., S. J. Gould, D. B. Oster, and D. B. Wake. 1979.
Size and shape in ontogeny and phylogeny.
Paleobiology 5 (3): 296-317.
Brosius, J., and S. J. Gould, 1992.
On "genomenclature":
A comprehensive (and respectful) taxonomy for pseudogenes and other "junk DNA."
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 89 (November 15): 10706-10710.
Conway Morris, S., and S. J. Gould. 1998.
Showdown on the Burgess Shale.
Natural History 107 (Dec./Jan.): 48-55.
Eldredge, N., and S. J. Gould. 1972. Punctuated
equilibria: an alternative to phyletic gradualism. In T.J.M. Schopf, ed., Models in Paleobiology. San Francisco:
Freeman, Cooper and Company, pp. 82-115.
1988. Punctuated equilibrium prevails. Nature 332: 211-212.
1997. On
punctuated equilibria. Science 276 (5311): 337-341.
Gould, S. J., and C. B. Calloway. 1980. Clams and brachiopodsships that pass in the night? Paleobiology 6 (4): 383-396.

Gould, S. J., and N. Eldredge. 1971. Speciation and punctuated equilibria: an
alternative to phyletic gradualism. G. S. A. Ann. Meeting, Washington, DC,
Abstracts with Programs, pp. 584-585.
1977. Punctuated
equilibria: the tempo and mode of evolution reconsidered. Paleobiology 3: 115-151.

1983. Darwin's gradualism. Systematic Zool. 32: 444-445.
1986. Punctuated equilibrium at the third stage. Systematic Zoology 35: 143-148.

1988. Species selection: its range and power. Nature 334: 19.
1993. Punctuated equilibrium comes of age.
Nature 366 (6452): 223-227.

Gould, S. J., and R. C. Lewontin. 1979.
The spandrels of
San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme.
Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 205 (1161): 581-98.
Gould, S. J., and E. Lloyd. 1999.
Individuality and adaptation
across levels of selection: how shall we name and generalize the unit of Darwinism?
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 96 (21): 11904-11909.
Gould, S. J., D. M. Raup, J. J. Sepkoski Jr., T. J. M. Schopf, and D. S. Simberloff.
1977. The shape
of evolution: a comparison of real and random clades. Paleobiology 3 (1): 23-40.
Gould, S. J., and E. S. Vrba, 1982. Exaptationa missing term in the science of
form. Paleobiology 8 (1): 4-15.
Lloyd, E. A., and S. J. Gould. 1993.
Species selection on variability.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 90 (2): 595-599.
Pilbeam, David and S. J. Gould. 1974.
Size and scaling in human evolution.
Science. 186 (Dec. 6): 892-901.
Raup, D. M. and S. J. Gould. 1974. Stochastic
simulation and evolution of morphology—toward a nomothetic paleontology. Systematic Zool. 23 (3): 305-322.
Shearer, R. R., and S. J. Gould. 1999. Of
two minds and one nature. Science 286 (Nov. 5): 1093-94.
Vrba, E. S., and S. J. Gould. 1986. The
hierarchical expansion of sorting and selection; sorting and selection cannot be equated. Paleobiology. 12 (April): 217-228.
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