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At least 27 killed, 22 critically injured in Bangkok bar fire
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US senator and close Trump ally Lindsey Graham dies after 'brief and sudden illness'
A spokesman for the 71-year-old South Carolina senator says initial findings suggest Graham's cause of death was related to his heart. read more
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British couple return to village at heart of deadly Spanish wildfire
At least 13 people, including five believed to be Britons, were killed by Thursday's wildfire in Spain's Almeria province. read more
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Planes sent to tackle wildfires of 'exceptional scale' near Paris
It was the first time firefighting planes had been sent up from the normally drier and hotter south of the country to tackle fires in the Paris region. read more
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US Senator Mitch McConnell says absence due to fall and pneumonia
The veteran Republican says he will not return to work "quite yet", in his first statement following weeks of speculation about his health. 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.
