NEWS HEADLINES
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US approves sale of 500 Patriot missiles to Ukraine
The American-made interceptors are the only effective weapon for downing Russia's ballistic missiles. read more
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Crypto giant Binance attempting to recover $6.3bn stolen in hack linked to North Korea
The cyber-attack, which the company describes as complex, is believed to be the largest ever of its kind. read more
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US inmate Christa Pike says she woke up 'confused and in pain' after failed execution
It is Pike's first public statement since she survived an execution attempt by lethal injection in September. read more
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Hundreds evacuated from Russian-occupied Oleshky during rare Ukraine ceasefire
Hundreds of people are also understood to have stayed in the front-line town, despite the dangers. read more
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Police deployed during stand-off over control of top Poland court
The escalation came after the government suspended two senior justices and moved to bring criminal charges against them. 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.
