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Nature 417, 706 (13 June 2002) | doi:10.1038/417706a

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Obituary: Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002)

Derek E. G. Briggs

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Palaeontologist and public face of evolutionary biology

Stephen Jay Gould, the world's most renowned palaeontologist, died in New York on 20 May. His death robs the fields of palaeontology and evolution of one of their most provocative thinkers, and millions of readers of an entertaining and astonishingly productive commentator on biology.