- Gould was born on September 10th, 1941 in Bayside, New York, United States. He died on May 20th, 2002 (age 60) in Manhattan, New York, United States.
- Gould spent most of his career teaching at Harvard University and working at the American museum of Natural History in New York. His major accomplishments was opposing selectionism, sociobiology as applied to humas, and evolutionary psychology.
- Gould received wide praise for his book "Ontogeny and Phylogeny," published in 1977. Another major publish b y Gould was "The Structure of Evolutionary Theory," Published in 2002
- Gould contributed to the evolutionary developmental biology. Also, his biggest contribution to evolutionary biology was the theory of punctuated equilibrium, which he developed with Niles Eldredge in 1972.