NEWS HEADLINES
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Artemis II crew take 'spectacular' image of Earth
The snap was taken aboard the Orion capsule by its commander, Reid Wiseman, as the crew head towards the Moon. read more
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Burkina Faso must 'forget' about democracy, military leader says
Capt Ibrahim Traoré, who seized power in 2023, says democratic rule would not work for his country. read more
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French-owned ship passes through Strait of Hormuz
It appears to be the first ship owned by a major European firm to go through the strait since the conflict began. read more
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France's Muslim gathering ban overturned by courts
The Paris police department had argued that the four-day gathering was a security threat because it could be a target of terrorism. read more
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Rapper Gucci Mane kidnapped and robbed by fellow artist, prosecutors say
Officials say the hip-hop star was forced to sign papers releasing a rapper known as Pooh Shiesty from his record contract. 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.
