R. T. Gould wrote " A grey seal has a long and surprisingly extensible neck ; it swims with a paddling action ; its colour fits the bill ; and there is nothing surprising in its being seen on the shore of the loch, or crossing a road.

I coined the term punctuated equilibrium and wrote most of our 1972 paper, but Niles is the proper first author in our pairing of Eldredge and Gould.

In response, Gould, Richard Lewontin, and others from the Boston area wrote the subsequently well referenced letter to The New York Review of Books entitled, " Against ' Sociobiology '".

With Richard Lewontin, Gould wrote an influential 1979 paper entitled, " The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm ", which introduced the architectural term " spandrel " into evolutionary biology.

Gould also wrote on this topic in his essay " Male Nipples and Clitoral Ripples ", prompted by Lloyd's earlier work.

A passionate advocate of evolutionary theory, Gould wrote prolifically on the subject, trying to communicate his understanding of contemporary evolutionary biology to a wide audience.

In a 1982 essay for Natural History Gould wrote:

Psychologist Lloyd Humphreys, then editor-in-chief of The American Journal of Psychology and Psychological Bulletin, wrote that The Mismeasure of Man was " science fiction " and " political propaganda ", and that Gould had misrepresented the views of Alfred Binet, Godfrey Thomson, and Lewis Terman.

In his review, psychologist Franz Samelson wrote that Gould was wrong in asserting that the psychometric results of the intelligence tests administered to soldier-recruits by the U. S. Army contributed to the legislation of the Immigration Restriction Act of 1924.

In his review of The Mismeasure of Man, Arthur Jensen, a University of California ( Berkeley ) educational psychologist whom Gould much criticized in the book, wrote that Gould used straw man arguments to advance his opinions, misrepresented other scientists, and propounded a political agenda.

Collins wrote the 1978 death of Moon Maid, and removed other Gould creations of the 1960s and 1970s ( including Groovy Grove, who was gravely wounded in the line of duty and later died in the hospital ; Lizz married him before his death ).

Agassiz, Davis, Peirce, Benjamin Gould, and Senator Wilson met at Bache's house and " hurriedly wrote the bill incorporating the Academy, including in it the name of fifty incorporators ".

Chester Gould ( November 20, 1900 – May 11, 1985 ) was an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the Dick Tracy comic strip, which he wrote and drew from 1931 to 1977, incorporating numerous colorful and monstrous villains.

Membership in the school is not generally extended to Schoenberg's many pupils in the United States from 1933, such as John Cage, Leon Kirchner and Gerald Strang, nor to many other composers who, at a greater remove, wrote compositions evocative of the Second Viennese style, such as the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould.

Hanson wrote and directed his next feature Sweet Kill in 1973, then in 1978 wrote and produced The Silent Partner, starring Elliott Gould and Christopher Plummer.

Stephen Jay Gould wrote that late 19th century evolutionists " re-read Lamarck, cast aside the guts of it ... and elevated one aspect of the mechanics-inheritance of acquired characters-to a central focus it never had for Lamarck himself.

In 2002, Philip Gould, a policy advisor to the Labour Party, wrote to the party's leadership that the brand had become contaminated and an object of criticism and ridicule, undermined by an apparent lack of conviction and integrity.

Gould wrote of Gibbons's hymns and anthems: " ever since my teen-age years this music ... has moved me more deeply than any other sound experience I can think of.

Steven Gould Axelrod wrote that, " concept behind the sonnet form was to achieve the balance of freedom and order, discontinuity and continuity, that he observed in

A different viewpoint comes from Stephen Jay Gould, who, while totally disagreeing with Ussher's chronology, nevertheless wrote:

* African-American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar wrote a poem entitled " Robert Gould Shaw ", in which he states: " Since thou and those who with thee died for right / Have died, the Present teaches, but in vain!

* African-American poet Benjamin Griffith Brawley wrote a memorial poem entitled " My Hero " in praise of Robert Gould Shaw.

In particular, Lewontin, Rose & Kamin drew a detailed distinction between the politics and history of an idea and its scientific validity, as has Stephen Jay Gould.

Shortly before his retirement, Gould drew a strip in which Sam, Lizz, and Groovy held Tracy down to shave off his mustache.

He drew the prop cartoons used in the 1957 Broadway musical comedy, Rumple, starring Gretchen Wyler, Elliott Gould and Eddie Foy, Jr.

* 1900 – Chester Gould, American comic strip artist ( d. 1985 )

* October 4 – Dick Tracy, the comic strip detective character created by cartoonist Chester Gould, makes his debut appearance in the Detroit Mirror newspaper.

Created by Chester Gould, the strip made its debut on October 4, 1931, in the Detroit Mirror.

Towards the end of the 1940s, Gould took steps to shake up the status quo of his strip.

During the late 1970s the strip was thought to have been drawn by a few other artists due to an ailing Gould.

" This feature ended when Gould retired from the strip in 1977, but Max Allan Collins reinstated it, and it is still part of the comic strip.

Chester Gould retired from comics in 1977 ; his last Dick Tracy strip appeared in print on Sunday, December 25 of that year.

Vitamin Flintheart, the aged ham actor created by Gould in 1944, who had not been seen in the strip for almost three decades, reappeared occasionally as a comic-relief figure.

Rick Fletcher died in 1983 and was succeeded by editorial cartoonist Dick Locher, who had assisted Gould on the strip in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Chester Gould won the Reuben Award for the strip in 1959 and 1977.

* Chester Gould ( 1900 – 1985 ), American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the Dick Tracy comic strip

* October 4-First appearance of the Dick Tracy comic strip, created by cartoonist Chester Gould.

* Alphonse " Big Boy " Caprice, a fictional character by Chester Gould in the comic strip Dick Tracy

Later stories, in which Gould veered into space opera and extraterrestrial contacts, mitigated somewhat against the strip's being recognized for its early use of realistic police procedure, but any examination of the Tracy strip from its beginnings in 1931 through the 1950s makes Gould's status as a pioneer in the police procedural sub-genre clear.

He studied the Sunday comic strip art of Milton Caniff, Alex Raymond, Hal Foster, and Chester Gould, as well as the characters of Walt Disney and Superman, provided in " boxes of comics " brought to him by an uncle.

Pruneface is a fictional character in the long-running comic strip Dick Tracy, drawn by cartoonist Chester Gould.

* October 4-Debut appearance of the Dick Tracy comic strip, created by cartoonist Chester Gould.

It is said Chester Gould suggested many of the story lines and helped Williamson from time to time on a proper way to present a comic strip plot.