NEWS HEADLINES
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Three dead and eight injured in Philippines school shooting
The gunman is among the dead in what is the third school shooting in the country since June. read more
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Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said a Canada-EU alliance would create a "beacon for other democracies". read more
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Ninth woman's body found as South African police investigate string of deaths
South Africa police have cautioned against assuming that all the killings are linked but many women are afraid. read more
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UN experts say grounds to believe US committed war crimes in Iran strikes
The US has not acknowledged carrying out February's deadly strikes on a primary school in Minab and a sports complex in Lamerd. read more
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'This is our company': Nigerians show off oil wealth after share-buying frenzy
Many Nigerians buy their first ever shares - in the oil refinery owned by Africa's richest man, Aliko Dangote. 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.
