NEWS HEADLINES
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US seizes two 'shadow fleet' tankers linked to Venezuelan oil
The ships were boarded by US forces in predawn operations in the North Atlantic and the Caribbean Sea. read more
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Trump actively discussing potentially buying Greenland, White House says
Both Greenland and its owner Denmark have repeatedly stressed the island was not for sale. read more
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'We are not for sale': Greenlanders express fear and indignation as Trump eyes territory
Greenlanders tell the BBC they have no interest in becoming American as the White House restates its desire for annexation. read more
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Venezuela's interim leader sacks general in charge of Maduro's guard
General Javier Marcano Tábata was the commander of the inner circle of guards tasked with protecting Maduro. read more
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Rare mountain gorilla twins born in Africa's oldest national park
Trackers in DR Congo's Virunga National Park spotted the babies being hugged by their mother on Saturday. 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.
