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Trump says ceasefire is 'over' after US and Iran trade strikes
Speaking ahead of a Nato summit, the president says US negotiators can keep talking with the Iranians "if they want". read more
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US strikes target Iranian military boats
The US has launched the strikes on Iran in response to attacks on three oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. read more
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German doctor jailed for murder of 15 patients and suspected of more
The German palliative care doctor has been sentenced to life imprisonment for killing 15 of his patients. read more
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Teenager arrested after two girls, 13, seriously injured in German school attack
Police said a major operation was under way in the area of Welfen-Gymnasium secondary school in Schongau, Bavaria. read more
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Arizona toddler found alive in hospital morgue after declared dead from drowning
After he was discovered to still be alive, the 18-month-old was flown to another hospital and survived. 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.
