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Thousands without power in freezing Ukraine as renewed Russian strikes continue
Ukraine's leader says regions including Kyiv and Kharkiv are among those suffering the most from blackouts as a result of recent attacks. read more
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Israeli strikes kill 20 in Gaza, hospitals say, after soldier wounded by gunfire
Hospitals say several children were among those killed in strikes that Israel's military says it launched after a gun attack on its troops. read more
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Melinda French Gates says ex-husband Bill has questions to answer over Epstein
She said her ex-husband and others named in the Epstein files needed to answer whatever questions remain. read more
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Son of Norway's crown princess chokes back tears giving evidence at rape trial
Marius Borg Høiby gives evidence after the first woman he is alleged to have raped told the court she believed she had been drugged. read more
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'I've never hit anything so hard': What it's like to be attacked by a shark
Peter Smith and his wife were on holiday in the Caribbean when a beautiful swim suddenly changed. 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.
