NEWS HEADLINES
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Iran accuses US of hitting civilian infrastructure
The US military says its attacks were intended to "further degrade Iranian military capabilities". read more
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Trump alleges China meddled in 2020 election and questions voting security ahead of midterms
China said Trump's claims were fabricated and US Democrats said he was paving the way to undermine November's elections. read more
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EU proposes slowing down cuts to carbon emissions for businesses
Under the proposals, the EU plans to relax its emissions trading system to give companies more time to reduce their carbon output. read more
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Air conditioner sparked deadly blaze at children's orphanage - police
Eleven people, including children, died in the fire that also injured 19 others. read more
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China hits out at British Steel nationalisation
The UK government said taking the firm into public hands would safeguard "a vital national capability". 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.
