Context:<br/><b>Stephen Jay <span style="color:#ff0000;">Gould</span></b> (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleontology' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleontology</a>, <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution</a>, and <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_science' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_science</a>. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_science' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_science</a> of his generation.<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Jay_Gould#cite_note-Shermer2002-1">[1]</a></sup> Gould spent most of his career teaching at <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University</a> and working at the <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Museum_of_Natural_History' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Museum_of_Natural_History</a> in New York. In the latter years of his life, Gould also taught biology and evolution at <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_University' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_University</a> near his home in <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoHo' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoHo</a>.<br/>Gould's most significant contribution to evolutionary