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Meghan's father Thomas Markle detained for allegedly cutting off ankle monitor, officials say
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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Malaysia's disgraced former PM leaves jail for house arrest after embezzling millions
Najib Razak was convicted for his role in the billion-dollar scandal involving the 1MDB sovereign wealth fund. read more
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Israel's new parliament sworn in as leaders compete to form government
Benjamin Netanyahu's main political rival, Gadi Eisenkot, has first chance to build a new government and oust the prime minister. read more
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Violence erupts in Bangladesh as ousted PM's supporters stage protest
Supporters of Sheikh Hasina want her to return from exile in India. read more
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Spain's king and queen attend memorial service for rail crash victims
Sixty-nine people died in the collision near Toledo two weeks ago and 28 are still in hospital. 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.
