NEWS HEADLINES
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Iran killed her teenage daughter - now she is facing up to the regime
Samira's 16-year-old daughter Sevda was shot dead as they took part in mass protests in January. read more
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Supermarket freezers in Belgium and Sweden hit by suspected cyber-attack
One store in Sweden says temperatures for its freezers were set to 50 C (122F). read more
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Nine killed as small jet crashes on Florida street
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy described the crash, which happened near President Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, as a "horrific tragedy". read more
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Five arrested after South African farmer shot and tortured
The attack on Donovan Marx, 50, comes as right-wing groups say there is a genocide of white people - a claim widely discredited. read more
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Ryanair says it may freeze workers' pay and raise airfares
The airline says fuel prices may rise by €2bn in 2028 unless there is an end to the US-Israel war with Iran. 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.
