NEWS HEADLINES
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US discussing options to acquire Greenland including using military, White House says
It came as European allies rallied behind Denmark, which is pushing back against Trump's ambitions for the Arctic island. read more
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Families shocked Swiss ski bar was not inspected for years before deadly fire
The New Year's Eve fire at a bar in Crans-Montana killed 40 people and injured 116. read more
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Yemen separatist leader accused of treason as Saudi Arabia strikes forces
The presidency also expels Aidarous al-Zubaidi, head of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council, after he fails to fly to Riyadh for talks. read more
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Plot to kill Burkina Faso leader foiled, says junta
The security minister accuses neighbouring Ivory Coast of funding the plan to kill Capt Traoré. read more
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Trump says Venezuela will be 'turning over' up to 50 million barrels of oil to US
Earlier the president said US oil firms could be "up and running" in the country within 18 months. 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.
