NEWS HEADLINES
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'No Kings' protests draw huge crowds as anti-Trump rallies sweep across US
The demonstrations against the US president - which Republicans had called "hate America rallies" - were boisterous but peaceful. read more
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'I'm 89 and I saw my homeland rebuilt before - but now I don't believe Gaza has a future'
One Palestinian family shares their story of life coming full circle - and what they believe lies ahead as talk turns to rebuilding Gaza read more
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US says Hamas is planning 'imminent' attack on Gaza civilians
The US state department says the move would be a violation of the ceasefire deal, but did not give further details. read more
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US to repatriate survivors of strike on 'drug-carrying submarine', Trump says
The latest attack is at least the sixth US strike on ships in waters off Venezuela in recent weeks. read more
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Wrongfully imprisoned for more than 40 years, US man now faces deportation to India
Subramanyam "Subu" Vedam was freed from prison after being wrongfully convicted for a 1980 murder. read more
ONTOGENY AND PHYLOGENY
STEPHEN JAY GOLD
BIOGRAPHY
Stephen Jay Gould was born and raised in the community of Bayside, a neighborhood of the northeastern section of Queens in New York City. His father Leonard was a court stenographer, and his mother Eleanor was an artist whose parents were Jewish immigrants living and working in the city’s Garment District.[6] When Gould was five years old his father took him to the Hall of Dinosaurs in the American Museum of Natural History, where he first encountered Tyrannosaurus rex. “I had no idea there were such things—I was awestruck,” Gould once recalled.[7] It was in that moment that he decided to become a paleontologist.
Raised in a secular Jewish home, Gould did not formally practice religion and preferred to be called an agnostic. Biologist Jerry Coyne, who had Gould on his thesis committee, described him as a “diehard atheist if there ever was one.
