NEWS HEADLINES
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Iranian missiles injure 160 in towns near Israeli nuclear site
Israel is investigating how ballistic missiles got through the country's sophisticated air defences. read more
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Sudan drone attack on key hospital killed 64 people during Eid, WHO says
The strike killed 64 people, including 13 children, two nurses and a doctor, according to the WHO head. read more
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National blackout hits Cuba for second time in a week
Another total failure of its power grid underlines Cuba's hardship under a US-imposed fuel blockade. read more
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Qatari and Turkish citizens die in military helicopter crash
Four Qatari military personnel, one Turkish serviceman and two technicians from a Turkish defence company were on board. read more
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Socialists battle to hold Paris as France holds mayoral elections
The capital could shift to the right after 25 years under the Socialists if Rachida Dati defeats Emmanuel Grégoire. 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.
