In the obituaries and tributes that I have seen to the late
Stephen Jay Gould, I have not seen any references to
his relationship with Marxism, and yet although, in recent
years, he shied away from that label (I recall reading an essay
of his in which he referred to himself as a pro-Clinton
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-303790,00.html
Stephen Jay Gould
Evolutionary biologist who challenged the orthodox thinking on Darwinism
and
had few rivals as a populariser of science
Stephen Jay Gould was one of the most gifted evolutionary scientists of
his
generation.