The Evolution of Life On Earth - By Stephen Jay Gould The Exaptive Excellence of Spandrels as a Term and Prototype - By Stephen Jay Gould The Pattern of Life's History - By Stephen Jay Gould Punctuated Equilibria: An Alternative to Phyletic - By Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould. Piltdown Revisited - By Stephen Jay Gould The Piltdown Conspiracy - By Stephen Jay Gould The Median Isn't the Message - Gould's essay on the statistics of cancer, inspired by his affliction and recovery from abdominal mesothelioma.