NEWS HEADLINES
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Spanish pensioner whose eviction sparked nationwide protests dies, union says
Maricarmen Abascal, 87, was forcibly removed on a stretcher from her apartment of more than 70 years in September. read more
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Israelis mourn 7 October attack victims three years after deadly Hamas raid
Memorial events have taken place in Israel on the third anniversary of the Hamas-led attack that sparked the devastating Gaza war. read more
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Israelis demand accountability over 7 October failures three years after attacks
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to take any personal responsibility for what happened or order a state inquiry. read more
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France halts use of stun grenades after boy's hand blown off in student protests
The step comes after several groups complained of police using disproportionate force towards teenagers. read more
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Canada suspends plans to expand assisted dying to people with mental illness
People with mental illness alone were to be eligible for assisted dying in Canada in March 2027, but that has now been paused indefinitely. 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.
