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All six crew members killed after US refuelling plane crashes in Iraq
The US Central Command says all six crew members died after a refuelling aircraft went down over western Iraq. read more
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Bodies of 84 Iranian sailors killed in US torpedo strike to be repatriated
The seamen died when Iranian warship the Iris Dena was sunk on 4 March by a US submarine near Sri Lanka. read more
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Cuba says it will release 51 prisoners in the coming days
Havana says it is in talks with Washington as no fuel has entered the island in three months. read more
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French vote tests polarised electorate with right hoping to win control of Paris
The highest-profile contest is for the mayorship of Paris - which has been under left-wing control for 25 years. read more
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KPop Demon Hunters to return as Netflix announces sequel
The sequel brings back the co-directors of the first film, which was a smash-hit for the streaming service. 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.
