NEWS HEADLINES
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Russia and Ukraine exchange prisoners as peace talks end without breakthrough
The swap - the first since October - sees 157 Ukrainians and 160 Russians returned home. read more
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Starmer apologises to Epstein victims for believing Mandelson's 'lies'
The PM says the depth of the pair's relationship was not known when he was appointed US ambassador. read more
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Suspect identified in disappearance of four-year-old in Australian outback
Gus Lamont was last seen playing outside his home on a remote sheep station on 27 September. read more
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Lebanon says Israel sprayed southern villages with concentrated herbicide
Israel declines to comment on the allegation its planes sprayed glyphosate over an area with extensive farmland. read more
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Japanese city cancels cherry blossom festival over badly behaved tourists
"Overtourism" during Japan's iconic blossom season makes life for locals in Fujiyoshida town unmanageable, authorities say. 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.
