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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 ...

How Jay Gould Built Wall Street’s Biggest Fortune” by Greg Steinmetz is a captivating, well-researched biography of the legendary 19th century financier and railroad magnate, who was among the most ...

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 ...

Jay Gould is CEO and co-founder of Toms River, N.J.-based Yashi, a location-focused online advertising technology company. He is also manages Gould Ventures, a technology investment fund.

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 ...

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 ...

In this 2002 essay, neurobiologist Steven Rose remembers the life and work of Stephen Jay Gould, particularly his role in the 'radical science… Stephen Jay Gould tackles the notion that existing ...