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Trump's 'energy ceasefire' claim welcomed by Zelensky but Russia silent
Ukraine's leader says he will support such a truce if Moscow does, after initially expressing surprise at Donald Trump's announcement. read more
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Trump faces growing backlash over plans to import diesel from Russia
Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers have criticised the deal, which was announced weeks before the US midterm elections. read more
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One killed, 11 injured in second Houthi strike on Riyadh airport in two days
The Saudi capital has been hit by multiple attacks from the Iran-backed Yemeni group over the weekend. read more
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Poland detains man suspected of planning assassination of PM Tusk
Police received credible information about possible attacks against Donald Tusk and his defence minister. read more
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Dozens of gold prospectors killed in strikes on Egypt-Sudan border, rights group says
Neither Egypt nor Sudan has commented on the alleged strikes on an artisanal mining camp on Saturday. 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.
