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  born in derbyshire england
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  born in Ealing, Middlesex
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  Huxleys debate with Samuel Wilberforce was a turning point in getting support for the public acceptance of evolution
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  he wrote about evolution before darwin
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  East Finchley, London, England
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  died of poor health
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  Stephen Gould was born in bayside new york
his father was a court stenographer
his mother an artist - 
  
  
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  sometime in 1972 stephen jay gould and niles eldredge co developed the theory of Punctuated equilibrium. Which basically shows that most species wont evolve in the rest of their existince
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  stephen died of a form of lung cancer that spread to his brain and killed him 20 years earlier he was diagnosed with a type of cancer that effects the abdominal lining