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Three Iran-backed suspects plotted attacks including RAF Fairford incident, US says
The US Department of Justice says the men were involved in a string of plots, including a major incident near the UK airbase that is used by US armed forces. read more
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US Army soldier suspected of spying for Russia arrested in UK
The 41-year-old senior soldier is accused of national security offences and is being questioned in London. read more
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US House blocks bid to impeach Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, for now
Trump welcomes the outcome, praising Hegseth as a "Great American Patriot", but Democrats can try again next year. read more
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Meghan's father Thomas Markle back in federal custody after allegedly removing ankle monitor
The 82-year-old was placed under house detention in Florida last week after being charged over possession of child sex abuse material. read more
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'It can kill us': Kenyans fear impact of El Niño with floods predicted
Forecasters warn that this year's El Niño could be one of the strongest on record, with heavy rain and flooding in Kenya. 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.
