NEWS HEADLINES
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Americans head to the polls for elections that could define Trump's closing chapter
The midterms will shape Congress for the last years of his presidency, writes Sarah Smith, but they are also a test of what politics may look like without him. read more
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US strikes Iran ahead of midterm elections
US officials described the attacks on Qeshm Island as limited and defensive, according to CBS, the BBC's US partner. read more
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Supreme Court rejects Trump's request to stop California counting disputed votes
The ruling, which comes on the eve of the midterm elections, essentially ends the Trump administration's bid to disqualify the ballots in the state. read more
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Russian bombing kills 29 people at Ukraine aid centre, Kyiv says
Officials say at least nine 3,000kg aerial bombs hit a southern Ukrainian village in what the president called an "utterly horrific" attack. read more
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Thousands of European troops to rehearse Ukraine deployment in event of peace
Western officials stress that any force sent to Ukraine would not take part in any offensive operations. 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.
