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Ukraine air raid app apparently hacked as users receive false radiation threat, Air Force says
Hours later Russian authorities said its app was also hacked, with fake warnings sent inside the country. read more
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Russian strikes cut power to thousands in Ukraine as Kherson ceasefire ends
A rare humanitarian ceasefire allowed civilians to evacuate the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky. read more
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Democrat endorses Republican candidate in key Michigan Senate race as party spat erupts
The move by Haley Stevens, who lost out on the Democratic Senate nomination to Abdul El-Sayed, was called a "despicable betrayal" by one top Democrat. read more
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Israeli strikes in Gaza kill eight including child, hospitals say
Five officers from the Hamas-run police have been killed in Khan Younis and three people, including a child, killed in Gaza City, officials say. read more
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France launches attempted murder investigation after petrol bomb thrown at police
There were hundreds of arrests as protesters took to the streets in cities across France for the third weekend in a row. 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.
