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China criticises idea it is in 'malicious competition' over AI
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Russia hits Ukrainian train shortly after Boris Johnson and top European officials leave station
The former UK PM said: "I don't know what warped logic drove Putin to blow up a stationary Ukrainian locomotive on the Polish border this morning". read more
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Swedish left-wing bloc narrowly ahead with election too close to call
With more than 90% of ballots processed early on Monday, the left-wing bloc was in front by approximately 20,000 votes. read more
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Wild dogs record 2,500-mile trek across Zambia in search of a mate
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Thousands demand end to violence in Mexican cartel hotspot
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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.
