Stephen Jay Gould

Recently deceased, Stephen Jay Gould remains at the front of the American stage with respect to evolution. Gould, known as Mr. Evolution, loved baseball and used it wherever possible to demonstrate statistical laws about random occurrences. His conclusion about random events can be summed up in a nutshell: If we toss a coin 100 times, we might see streaks of say 5 heads or 5 tails but such streaks are random and insignificant. This, in a sense, is Gould's evolution theory for he argues that all life forms, including human beings, are mere random occurrences.

Gould dispenses with all theoretical notions of genetics, such as the selfish, sharing or cultural gene and remains disinterested in anything unrelated to baseball. His views include little on such common genetic issues like IQ. In comparison to Darwin and others,

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