Tuesday, April 03, 2007



Welcome to the world of Stephen Jay Gould, the nation's best-known paleontologist. As a paleontologist, Gould studies the geological record—fossils and rock samples—left by cataclysms like this to discover the history of life. For him, time is measured in millennia rather than days, there is only one gigantic continent (called Pangaea), and humans—who've been around for only 100,000 years—are but a tiny blip on the evolutionary timeline.






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