[Kudzu_Bob]

Gould has been exposed as a fraud.

[lutusp]

Citation needed.

[clarkm]

Interesting how you never bothered to ask that while reading the fraudulent book itself.

It's like skimming a poorly-researched paper on vaccines, taking it as gospel, proceeding to claim that they cause autism, and yet reflexively responding with "citation needed" to anyone that dare call into question your insane ideas.

[gwern]

And you dare to pontificate on this topic on HN while not even knowing the basics.

Here, since you apparently are completely inept and mind-killed: in Google, punch in 'Gould fraud'. The very first link is to a Nature.com page: http://blogs.nature.com/news/2011/06/did_stephen_jay_gould_f...

[Kudzu_Bob]

Simply Google "gould" and "fraud" and you will have hours of fascinating reading.