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Immigration chief at centre of Trump's crackdown set to leave Minneapolis
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'We're all terrified', Minnesotan tells the BBC in tears
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India and EU announce landmark trade deal
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Deadly US winter storm leaves flights delayed and thousands without power
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Philippines' Duterte fit to face ICC proceedings, judges say
The 80-year-old is accused of crimes of humanity over his bloody war on drugs that left thousands killed. 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.
