NEWS HEADLINES
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Israel strikes Beirut suburb days after US-brokered truce
Israel says the attacks on the Lebanese capital were ordered "in response to Hezbollah's firing at Israeli territory". read more
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Zelensky criticises 'vile' Chornobyl drone strike ahead of London talks
Ukrainian officials say a Russian drone hit a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel near the Chornobyl nuclear plant. read more
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Steve Rosenberg: Russia's economic forum overshadowed by drone attacks on St Petersburg
The BBC's Russia editor saw Putin's flagship economic event overshadowed by Ukrainian drones attacks. read more
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Armenia votes as Russia piles pressure on pro-West government
Incumbent Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is seeking a third term despite falling domestic support. read more
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Huge crowds throng Madrid streets for Pope's open-air Mass
The pontiff waved at those gathered from his popemobile as he arrived at the Plaza de Cibeles. 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.
