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Watch the moment Artemis II blasts into space
After delays and technical issues, the first crewed Moon mission in 50 years finally took off from Florida and is now in Earth's orbit. read more
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Trump leaves key questions unanswered as he seeks to calm nerves over Iran war
There were some glaring omissions in the president's primetime address, writes the BBC's Gary O'Donoghue. read more
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Magnitude 7.4 earthquake hits off Indonesia, killing one
The quake struck between the islands of Manado and Ternate. Tsunami warnings have now been lifted. read more
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Israel intensifies Lebanon attacks and hits areas not in Hezbollah's control
Attacks have continued as Israel has announced its intention to control swathes of south Lebanon. read more
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Utah teen identified as victim of serial killer Ted Bundy
New DNA testing has solved the 51-year-old case of murdered teenager Laura Ann Aime, according to investigators. 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.
