NEWS HEADLINES
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Trump and officials 'likely' targets of press dinner shooting suspect, authorities believe
The suspect is expected to be charged with assault of a federal officer and using a firearm during a crime of violence, officials have said. read more
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I was in the room with Trump and heard the low thudding sound of gunfire
The BBC's Gary O'Donoghue describes the moment he and others dived for cover as shots rang out at the venue. read more
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Trump cancels US envoys' trip to Pakistan for talks on Iran war
Iran had earlier said there were no plans for a direct meeting with a US delegation led by Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. read more
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Mali defence minister killed as country hit by wave of rebel attacks
A wave of coordinated attacks by jihadist militants and separatists has spread through the country. read more
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Netanyahu orders army to 'vigorously attack' Hezbollah in Lebanon
The Israeli PM's directive comes as six people were killed by strikes in Lebanon despite a ceasefire being extended by three weeks. 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.
