NEWS HEADLINES
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What we know so far after Krakow gun attack
Six people were killed in a random shooting in Krakow's main square, and three bodies were later found at the home of the attacker. read more
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Houthis say at least 33 killed in Saudi air strike
Saudi Arabia, which leads a coalition fighting the Houthis in Yemen, has not commented. read more
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'Flat', 'tired', 'cynical': Unusually gloomy Kiwis deliver New Zealand's tightest election in years
The national mood is low, and faith in politics even lower - with voters deserting the major parties at the polls. read more
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Israel's president tasks opposition leader Eisenkot with forming government
Neither PM Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc nor that of his rival secured a majority in last week's election. read more
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US offers $20m reward for information about Iran's nuclear programme
Donald Trump has repeatedly raised the prospect of renewing strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities. 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.
