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  • Iran ceasefire deal gives Trump a way out of war - but at a high cost

    The path to the two-week ceasefire with Iran may have fundamentally altered the way the rest of the world views the US. read more

  • What we know about the two-week ceasefire between the US and Iran

    The provisional truce comes more than a month after the US and Israel launched coordinated attacks on Iran. read more

  • Israel carries out large wave of air strikes across Lebanon

    Attacks hit the southern suburbs of Beirut, southern Lebanon and the eastern Bekaa Valley hours after a US-Iran ceasefire was announced. read more

  • Oil prices plunge and shares jump on US-Iran ceasefire plan

    Crude prices tumbled by more than 15% on the conditional pause but remain far higher than before the war. read more

  • Greece to ban social media for under-15s from next year

    It follows similar moves in other European countries, including France and Spain. read more

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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.

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