NEWS HEADLINES
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Iran says Strait of Hormuz will be closed over Israel attacks on Lebanon
Iran said Israel's continued attacks in Lebanon are a breach of Tehran's agreement with the US to end the war. read more
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Lebanese turtle conservationist Mona Khalil killed by Israeli strike
Mona Khalil, who had refused to leave the beach she had spent years protecting, died from her injuries after the Israeli strike. read more
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Meloni tells Trump to 'focus on your own popularity' as row escalates
The US president earlier questioned Meloni's popularity after suggesting she "begged" for a photo at G7 summit read more
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Bolivian president declares state of emergency
The move comes after weeks of anti-government protests that have caused a shortage of basic goods in Bolivia. read more
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Zelensky returns highest Polish honour after award stripped
Ukraine's president said his country was open to "engagement" about "difficult and painful chapters of our shared past". 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.
