NEWS HEADLINES
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Israeli strike on Gaza seafront cafe kills at least 20 Palestinians, witnesses and rescuers say
The outdoor cafe was frequently used by journalists, activists and local residents. read more
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'Unprecedented' alerts in France as blistering heat grips Europe
Dozens of the country's mainland regions are currently under the second-highest alert as the heatwave continues. read more
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US must rule out more strikes before new talks, Iranian minister tells BBC
Majid Takht-Ravanchi said the Trump administration has "not made their position clear" on further attacks. read more
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Idaho ambush suspect wanted to be a firefighter before deadly attack
The suspect deliberately lit a fire to lure first responders to a mountainous area near Coeur d'Alene. read more
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I lost half my weight in jail, but I'm not broken, says freed Belarus opposition leader
Sergei Tikhanovsky was kept isolated in bare, tiny cells and tells the BBC that Belarus must free other political prisoners. 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.
