Stephen Jay Gould was born in 1941 in New York City. He received his A.B. from Antioch College in 1963 and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1967. He has taught at Harvard University since 1967 and is now Professor of Geology and Curator of Inverterbrate Paleontology, Museum of Comparative Zoology. Professor Gould regards himself primarily as an evolutionary biologist, and is primarily interested in mathematical problems of growth and form applied to evolution of lineages. At Harvard, he teaches geology, biology, and the history of science. The author of more than 200 consecutive essays for Natural History Magazine - in the column known as "This View of Life", Professor Gould is also a contributor to Discover Magazine. He served as the President of the Paleontological Society and the prestigious MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship. He has also received the Silver National Medalm of the Zoology Society of London, and the Edinburgh Medal from the city of Edinburgh. He won the National Msgazine Award for Essays and Criticism in 1980 and in 1981 received an American Book Award for the Panda's Thumb and the National Book Critic's Circle award for the Mismeasure of Man. Discover Magazine named him their scientist of the year in 1982. Most recently he has been honored with the 1990 Phi Betta Kappa Award for Science. His books include: Ever Since Darwin, The Flamingo Smile, Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes, An Urchin in the Storm, Wonderfull Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, and Bully for Brontosaurus.