[curiosity]

You must be speaking of a different Stephen Gould than the one that wrote Wonderful Life, since in that book he plainly stated that Darwin's theory was in complete 180 degree disagreement with the observable fossil evidence.

I very much doubt it. Citation please, with context.

Gould even went so far as to dub the fossil record as a "cone of decreasing diversity" rather than the "cone of increasing diversity that is required by Darwin."

Context please.

[editor-surveyor]

"Context please."

I gave you the context. Read the book for yourself.