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Trump says US-Iran deal to be signed on Sunday as Tehran casts doubt on timing
The US president's comments come as Iran says an exact date has not been decided, but it "will not be tomorrow". read more
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Switzerland votes on plan to cap population at 10 million
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Russian families use AI to 'resurrect' loved ones killed in Ukraine
The highly controversial trend lies at the intersection of Russia's war on Ukraine, new AI technologies and grief. read more
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New York Knicks win NBA championship for first time in over 50 years
The Knicks clinched the title against the San Antonio Spurs, 94-90, in the fifth game of the best-of-seven series. read more
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Nigerian author accuses hospital of stalling review into her son's death
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's 21-month old son died in a Lagos hospital, which she says is trying to stop an inquest into the circumstances of his death. 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.
