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German Chancellor Merz calls state election a 'disaster' for his party but vows to stay on
Exit polls show damaging losses for Merz's centre-right CDU party in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Berlin. read more
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Russia's elections had few surprises - but how the Kremlin uses the results will be crucial
Vladimir Putin will likely use the result to claim most Russians back the so-called special military operation in Ukraine, writes the BBC's Steve Rosenberg. read more
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Seven Ethiopian rebel groups form new alliance
The groups have been active in Ethiopia's most populous regions for years and now say they will work together. read more
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CNN, MS NOW and Politico to file lawsuit against Trump's White House ban
The US media outlets say they are defending "the principle that the government does not decide what the press reports or publishes". read more
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Three arrested in South Africa over one of nine women's bodies
The body of Jabulile Ntimba was the ninth to be found recently in an area east of Johannesburg. 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.
