NEWS HEADLINES
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Trump removes US Attorney General Pam Bondi
Bondi's time as top US law enforcement officer was overshadowed by her handling of the Epstein files. read more
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'I haven't slept for days': Iranians describe mounting desperation after a month of war
Ordinary people from various parts of Iran describe expanding strikes, economic pain and fear of repression. read more
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Iran war could make beer and bottled water pricier for Indians
Makers of plastic and glass bottles are struggling to access raw materials as the war squeezes supplies. read more
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'Be serious... don't speak every day': Macron criticises Trump approach to Iran war
The comments were an apparent jab at the US leader's sometimes contradictory stance on the US-Israeli war against Iran. read more
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Judge dismisses most of Blake Lively's claims in Justin Baldoni harassment suit
The judge left in place three allegations against Baldoni, meaning the civil trial will go ahead next month. 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.
