NEWS HEADLINES
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'This is a disaster': Angry Republicans blame Trump for midterms defeat
Some Republicans tell the BBC the president's focus on his legacy and indifference to voter concerns cost them. read more
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James Talarico becomes first Democrat to win Texas Senate seat since 1988
"This wasn't just a tsunami, not just a referendum, but this was a bloodbath," one expert told the BBC on Democrats' historic wins in Texas. read more
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Left-wing Democrat Abdul El-Sayed wins in Michigan to become first Muslim senator
El-Sayed bested Republican Mike Rogers to become the first Muslim senator in US history. read more
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Florida Republicans fend off Democrats as state elects first black governor
Republican Byron Donalds, who was backed by President Donald Trump, will be the first black governor of Florida. read more
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Iran's chief negotiator says Americans voted 'no to war'
"We endorse this message," Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf says, as Donald Trump acknowledges the conflict's role in the Republican Party's defeat. 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.
