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Russian general shot several times in Moscow
Lt Gen Vladimir Alexeyev is a senior figure in the main directorate of Russia's military general staff. read more
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Talks with US set to continue after 'good beginning', Iran's foreign minister says
Abbas Aragchi spoke after hours of talks in Oman ended, which the two countries entered with significantly different positions. read more
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More than 30 killed in blast at Pakistan mosque, officials say
Almost 170 were injured in the explosion, which took place during Friday prayers in the capital Islamabad. read more
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Trump removes video with racist clip depicting Obamas as apes
The White House defended the post at first, calling to "stop the fake outrage", as members of both parties condemned the video. read more
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Savannah Guthrie's brother renews plea for proof mother is alive
Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of an NBC News presenter, is believed to have been abducted from her home in Tucson, Arizona. 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.
