NEWS HEADLINES
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Navalny's mother says she always knew he was murdered after poison finding
On the second anniversary of his death, Lyudmila Navalnaya says her son did not "simply die in prison". read more
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Trump's new world order has become real and Europe is having to adjust fast
European nations are asking whether traditional alliances can suffice, or whether they should be diversifying read more
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Bondi Beach shooting accused faces court for the first time
The 24-year-old faces 59 charges, including 15 counts of murder and one of committing a terrorist attack. read more
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'It's never too late': Savannah Guthrie's new plea for mother's release as FBI analyses glove
The FBI says it recovered a DNA sample from the glove, which was found in a field a few miles from Guthrie's home. read more
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Pressure grows for release of remaining Venezuelan political prisoners
An NGO says hundreds of people remain behind bars despite US pressure US to speed up their release. 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.
