He campaigned against creationism and proposed that science and religion should be considered two compatible, complementary fields, or "magisteria," whose authority does not overlap. In evolutionary theory, he opposed strict selectionism, sociobiology as applied to humans, and evolutionary psychology. He contributed to evolutionary developmental biology. Gould helped develop the theory of punctuated equilibrium, in which evolutionary stability is marked by instances of rapid change. Most of Gould's empirical research was on land snails. Gould spent most of his career teaching at Harvard University and working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation. He campaigned against creationism and proposed that Stephen Jay Gould was a prominent American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. Stephen Jay Gould was a prominent American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science.
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