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Aftershock frays nerves as many Venezuelans left to fend for themselves
In devastated areas people are using crowbars, pickaxes and their bare hands to try to reach survivors. read more
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Mum rescued from Venezuela rubble with newborn baby tells BBC how he helped her survive
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Six people shot dead at centre for mothers and children in Germany
The male suspect who has been arrested was in a custody dispute over his baby daughter, police say. read more
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Trump's final appeal of E Jean Carroll sex abuse case rejected
The Supreme Court decision means the US president will now have to pay Carroll the $5m (£3.6m) in damages she had been awarded. read more
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US says it has agreed to 'stand down' after exchange of strikes with Iran
A series of strikes over the weekend saw the US and Iran accuse each other of violating the ceasefire agreement. 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.
