NEWS HEADLINES
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Clashes erupt in Barcelona after thousands join Spain general strike
Tens of thousands of people have been taking part in the strike, called by the country's main unions over housing and the high cost of living. read more
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Democrat Scott Colom wins Mississippi Senate race in surprise victory for party
Colom's victory makes him the first black person from Mississippi to be elected to the US Senate in more than 140 years. read more
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Russia-Ukraine talks turn to post-war security but end without breakthrough
Talks in Abu Dhabi centred around Europe's security framework, with US envoys due to meet Putin and Zelensky on Thursday. read more
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Schools in Italy, Scotland and Northern Ireland hit by threats in suspected bomb hoax
More than 6,000 Italian schools received a threat. Authorities in all three countries say there appears to be no risk to the public. read more
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Indonesia's vice president resigns amid signs ruling alliance is fraying
The news comes at a turbulent time for Prabowo, who faces a growing rift with his predecessor Joko Widodo. 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.
