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Nature 456, 873-874 (18 December 2008) | doi:10.1038/456873a; Published online 17 December 2008
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Stephen Jay Gould's idea of evolution by bursts was controversial. But it gave the field of palaeontology a long-overdue boost, explains Steve Jones.
BOOK REVIEWED-Stephen Jay Gould: Reflections on His View of Life
Edited by Warren D. Allmon, Patricia H. Kelley and Robert M. Ross Oxford University Press: 2009. 416 pp. £18.99, $34.95
Stephen Jay Gould was one of the world's top six snail geneticists, and the other five of us agreed. Unlike his colleagues — and in the tradition of Edgar Allan Poe and his 1839 work The Conchologist's First Book: Or, a System of Testaceous Malacology — he followed the iron rule that nobody who works on snails becomes famous until they give it up.
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