NEWS HEADLINES
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Iran accuses US of 'reckless military adventure'
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the US opts for a "reckless military adventure" every time a "diplomatic solution is on the table". read more
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Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of breaching Victory Day ceasefire
The two sides report responding to hundreds of drone attacks, just hours into a truce to cover celebrations of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany. read more
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Worldwide race to trace passengers from hantavirus-hit cruise ship
About 12 countries have so far been linked to the hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius, as the UN health agency confirms at least five cases. read more
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White House calls Mark Hamill 'sick' after actor's Trump grave post
The Star Wars actor apologised and deleted the post, which contained an AI image of the president in a shallow grave. read more
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International cyber attack disrupts swathe of universities and schools
A hacking group breached the academic software Canvas, used by thousands of schools and universities across the globe. 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.
