NEWS HEADLINES
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'Time for Ukraine to get new president,' says Trump after Zelensky condemns diesel deal
Ukraine's leader had said the deal with Russia to release diesel into the US would help Moscow fund the war. read more
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Russian glide bomb attack on Zaporizhzhia kills at least 20 people
Volodymyr Zelensky says the attack, which left children dead, was Russia expressing its "thanks" for a US diesel deal. read more
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Several injured in attack on airport in Saudi capital Riyadh
The US embassy says it is "aware of attacks on King Khalid International Airport", which come days after Yemen's Houthis said they had struck it. read more
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US murderer Christa Pike discharged from hospital 10 days after failed execution
Pike's lawyers say she is "grateful" to the medical team who cared for her after she survived two lethal injections last month. read more
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Four dead and thousands without power after Hurricane Isaias lashes US
Roofs were ripped off buildings after Isaias barrelled into the US on Friday evening, before it weakened to a post-tropical cyclone. 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.
