Editing The Mismeasure of Man (section)

==Author==
{{main|Stephen Jay Gould}}
Stephen Jay Gould ({{IPAc-en|g|uː|l|d}}; 1941 – 2002) was one of the most influential and widely read authors of [[popular science]] of his generation.<ref name=Shermer2002>{{Citation|last1 = Shermer|first1 = Michael|year = 2002|title = This View of Science|url = http://www.stephenjaygould.org/library/shermer_sjgould.pdf|journal = Social Studies of Science|volume = 32|issue = 4|pages = 489–525|postscript = . |doi=10.1177/0306312702032004001|pmid = 12503565|s2cid = 220879229}}</ref> He was known by the general public mainly for his 300 popular essays in ''[[Natural History (magazine)|Natural History]]'' magazine,<ref name=tatt>{{cite web| author= Tattersall I |title=Remembering Stephen Jay Gould |url= http://naturalhistorymag.com/perspectives/302413/remembering-stephen-jay-gould| access-date=June 7, 2013}}</ref> As in ''The Mismeasure of Man'', Gould criticized biological theories of human behavior in "Against ''Sociobiology''" (1975)<ref>Allen, Elizabeth, et al. (1975). [https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1975/11/13/against-sociobiology/ "Against 'Sociobiology'".] [letter] ''[[New York Review of Books]]'' 22 (Nov. 13): 182, 184–186.</ref> and "The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm" (1979).<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Gould | first1 = S. J. | last2 = Lewontin | first2 = Richard | year = 1979 | title = The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme | journal = Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. | volume = 205 | issue = 1161| pages = 581–98 | doi = 10.1098/rspb.1979.0086 | pmid = 42062 | bibcode = 1979RSPSB.205..581G | s2cid = 2129408 }} for background see Gould's [http://www.edge.org/documents/ThirdCulture/i-Ch.2.html "The Pattern of Life's History"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150414021048/http://www.edge.org/documents/ThirdCulture/i-Ch.2.html |date=2015-04-14 }} in John Brockman ''[http://www.edge.org/documents/ThirdCulture/d-Contents.html The Third Culture] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160130235501/http://www.edge.org/documents/ThirdCulture/d-Contents.html |date=2016-01-30 }}''. New York: Simon & Schuster. 1996, pp. 52–64. {{ISBN|0-684-82344-6}}.</ref>