NEWS HEADLINES
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Zelensky moves towards demilitarised zones in latest peace plan for Ukraine
On the key question of Ukraine's eastern Donbas, Zelensky says a "free economic zone" is a potential option. read more
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Venezuela accuses US of 'extortion' over seizure of oil tankers
An emergency meeting of the UN Security Council was called to discuss the US seizure of two tankers. read more
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Email by 'A' from 'Balmoral' asked Ghislaine Maxwell for 'inappropriate friends', Epstein files show
A newly released email sent to Ghislane Maxwell from "A" is among the latest set of Epstein files released by the US' House Committee on Oversight and Reform. read more
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Trump trips, a fake video and 10 possible co-conspirators: Takeaways from new Epstein files
The largest release of Epstein-related documents yet from the justice department included some notable messages and several mentions of Trump. read more
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Australia to deport British man charged with displaying Nazi symbols
The immigration minister said the man is an unwelcome "guest" in Australia. 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.
