NEWS HEADLINES
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Gas and oil prices soar and shares tumble on fears conflict could escalate
Markets react as the conflict in the Middle East intensifies and concerns grow over how long it will last. read more
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Trump threatens to halt trade with Spain over military base access
Trump lashed out after Spain barred the US from using its military bases to carry out strikes on Iran. read more
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Battered and isolated, Hezbollah drags Lebanon into another war
Its attack on Israel in support of Iran has led to fresh mass displacements and Israeli bombing, to the fury of many Lebanese. read more
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Six US soldiers killed in Iranian strike on Kuwait base
The US defence secretary confirms a US military base was hit by Iran on Sunday. read more
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Why Europe's leaders have struggled to speak as one on Iran
European nations say they want to work better together but have differing priorities 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.
