Quora answer: What do biologists think of Stephen Jay Gould?

Stephan Jay Gould was not just a popularizer, but a serious evolutionary biologist who dealt with the problem of integrating punctuated equilibrium ideas into evolutionary theory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Jay_Gould

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuated_equilibrium

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Evolutionary_Theory

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