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STEPHEN JAY GOULD
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MANY SCIENTISTS find it difficult to communicate with the public
because they allow themselves to be transformed from the excited
young learners they once were into specialists defending the tiny
beachheads they have achieved against ignorance. That was not the
case with Stephen Jay Gould, the Harvard paleontologist who died
Monday of cancer at 60. In his prolific and readable writings, there
was always the boy from New York City who fell early and hard for
both the Yankees and the dinosaur e...
