Abstract
By my count, Stephen Jay Gould changed the way that evolutionary biologists think three times: (i) introducing punctuated equilibrium [1]; (ii) rescuing and jumpstarting the long-discredited field of evolution and development in Ontogeny and Phylogeny [2]; and (iii) catalyzing a debate on contingency, determinism and morphological disparity in Wonderful Life [3]. Gould's death in 2002 prevented his final work from changing the way we think for a fourth time. I doubt that a living Gould would have allowed two lukewarm but influential book reviews written by microevolutionists [4,5] to give evolutionary biologists ‘permission’ to avoid reading his admittedly long The Structure of Evolutionary Theory [6].
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