NEWS HEADLINES
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France in fresh political crisis as PM Lecornu quits after 26 days
Lecornu was asked by President Macron to stay on until Wednesday in a last-ditch attempt to achieve "stability" for the country. read more
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'I was lucky to get out': Everest hikers battle hypothermia as blizzard rescue continues
At least one hiker has died and hundreds are still stranded near the mountain's eastern face. read more
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What are the key sticking points in Trump's Gaza peace plan?
Negotiators from Israel and Hamas are heading to Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, to start indirect talks about ending the Israel-Gaza war. read more
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US Supreme Court rejects Ghislaine Maxwell appeal in Epstein case
The British socialite is serving a 20-year prison sentence on sex-trafficking charges related to former boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein. read more
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New Zealand pays Samoa millions after naval ship crash
HMNZS Manawanui started leaking oil into the ocean after it sank in Samoan waters a year ago. 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.
