NEWS HEADLINES
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Trump says US-Iran ceasefire still in place after exchange of fire in Strait of Hormuz
Iran accuses the US of violating the truce, alleging it targeted an oil tanker and carried out attacks on coastal areas. read more
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Oil prices rise after US and Iran exchange fire in Hormuz strait
US President Donald Trump says the ceasefire between Washington and Tehran is still in place. read more
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Third British national has suspected hantavirus infection, UK government says
The patient is on the remote Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha, which was visited by the cruise ship in April. read more
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Anti-war protests rock Japan as PM pushes for stronger defence
Japan's largest anti-war protests in decades highlight a population divided over changes to its pacifist constitution. read more
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Trump and Lula's private Oval Office meeting signals lingering strain - and effort to avoid tension
The US and Brazilian presidents did not appear together publicly, but traded compliments after their talks. 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.
