Stephen Jay Gould

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Stylish, elegant, a spandrel fancier — who isn’t? — and he irritated the living piss out of Richard Dawkins. What’s not to like? Books include The Mismeasure of Man and Template:BrRocks of Ages, but his main thing was paleontology.