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Ex-Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang summoned to testify before Congress about affair with alleged Chinese spy
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Zelensky welcomes US bringing Europe into Russia-Ukraine peace talks
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North Korean hackers used fake video calls in $400m crypto hack, says FBI
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Russian warship hit by Ukrainian drone in Gulf of Finland
The attack is thought to be the first time Ukrainian drones have attacked a Russian ship in an open stretch of the Baltic Sea. read more
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Suspected bomb hoax threats force fresh evacuations of Italian schools
Schools across Italy have received bomb threats for the second day in a row, sparking fresh panic and evacuations. 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.
