NEWS HEADLINES
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Norway and Finland leaders hold rare call with Putin
An end to the conflict in Ukraine "will not be achieved through silence," Finland's President Alexander Stubb said. read more
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Ceasefire extended across Ukraine's Kherson region, officials say
The truce was originally planned for the stranded residents of Oleshky, and Russia and Ukraine say no breaches have been reported. read more
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Mbappé sorry for 'ill-judged' Mao remark after backlash in China
The France star had referred to the former Chinese leader as a "dictator" during an interview about memes. read more
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Lula's comeback in Brazil dents Trump's ambitions for Latin America
The Trump-Lula relationship may have thawed, but several issues could reignite tensions between the two leaders. read more
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Dutch zookeeper dies after being mauled by leopard
The woman began her career at the park when she was 17 and had worked there on-and-off for four decades. 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.
