NEWS HEADLINES
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Iran faces 'greatest financial offensive ever', says US treasury secretary
Scott Bessent says the US will sever all economic ties with the country and that any nation partnering with Iran financially will also be isolated. read more
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UK PM Burnham vows support for Ukraine despite 'outrageous threats' from Russia
It comes after Moscow warned of "consequences" over the reported use of British drones by Ukraine. read more
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Russia's second-biggest online retailer targeted in Ukrainian strikes
Ozon says its warehouses across southern Russia, including in Dagestan and Krasnodar, were hit in the overnight strikes. read more
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Israel warns of 'forceful' response to kites flown from Gaza
Hamas says the kites found in Israeli border communities in recent days were launched by children in Gaza. read more
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King of Norway's health has worsened, palace says
Norway's King Harald remains in hospital receiving antibiotics for a bloodstream bacterial infection. 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.
