NEWS HEADLINES
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Trump says FBI investigating Nvidia boss's affair with alleged Chinese spy
The US president said he spoke with Jensen Huang on Monday and asked him about the affair with the alleged spy. read more
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First day of Ukraine peace talks 'very productive', US says
Delegations from Kyiv, Washington and Moscow are in the United Arab Emirates for the first trilateral talks since February. read more
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DR Congo sentences 66 soldiers to death for being 'cowards'
The Congolese army's fight against rebel groups has long been hampered by disarray within its ranks. read more
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'Cruise for life' ship seized in Singapore
The Odyssey was meant to take guests around the world for years, but the trip was cut short after its operator ran out of money. read more
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Arrests made in Mohamed Al Fayed probe in France, police say
The Ritz hotel in Paris, which is still owned by the Al Fayed family, is one of the properties searched by police. 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.
