NEWS HEADLINES
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Deal with US not imminent, Iran says
The US secretary of state earlier said that an agreement could possibly come on Monday. read more
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Oil prices slide on hopes of US-Iran peace deal
Trump said on Saturday that an agreement would include the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, without giving further details. read more
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She was told to marry in a country which bans girls' education. So she got in a taxi and fled
Nearly five years on from Afghanistan's school ban, young women say they have waved goodbye to their dreams. read more
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Large-scale Russian attack on Ukraine leaves four dead and dozens injured
A hypersonic missile, which reportedly travels over 10 times the speed of sound, was used, Russia has confirmed. read more
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Anger grows after China's deadliest coal mining disaster in years
On China's tightly-controlled internet, people are calling for justice and questioning how this happened. 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.
