NEWS HEADLINES
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US insists Strait of Hormuz is open as it exchanges strikes with Iran
Iranian forces earlier said the Strait was closed and launched wide-ranging attacks at US allies and bases in the region. read more
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US senator and close Trump ally Lindsey Graham dies after 'brief and sudden illness'
Donald Trump pays tribute to the 71-year-old South Carolina senator, calling him a "true American patriot" who will be "greatly missed". read more
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Badly burned British couple rescued from ravine during Spain wildfires, reports say
The unnamed pair were found semi-conscious with 40% burns after being trapped by the blazes raging through Almeria province, local media reports. read more
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China evacuates nearly two million people as powerful typhoon makes landfall
Schools, work and outdoor activities have been suspended in Zhejiang province and many transport services cancelled. read more
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Former Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani dies aged 74
He took power in 1996 after staging a bloodless coup against his father, and went on to transform Qatar into the gas-rich power it is today. 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.
