Stephen Jay Gould 1941/2002 | Helder, M. 2002.
CS Dialogue 29(3):6-7. CELD ID 16218Abstract In William Shakespeare's famous play, Mark Antony orates upon the death of Julius Caesar: "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones." (Act III Scene 2). Indeed, it was ever thus. It is so much easier to remember negatives about an individual rather than positives. However in the case of Stephen Jay Gould, many people will remember his positive contributions to science. That is not to say that all his achievements were praiseworthy. Nevertheless this man, more than most of his colleagues, undertook to report to the world the true state of his area of expertise, the fossil record.
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