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Kyiv bridge hit in further Russian drone attack as German chancellor makes surprise visit
Footage shows a drone hitting the Pivnichyi (Northern) Bridge as vehicles move across it, creating a large fireball. read more
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Watch: What we know about Russian strikes on Kyiv bridges
BBC Ukraine correspondent Dan Johnson is near Kyiv's Northern Bridge, which has been hit for the second day in a row. read more
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Yemen's government announces all-out war to reclaim land from Houthis
The Yemeni president's announcement comes amid an exchange of strikes between the Houthis and the Saudi-led coalition. read more
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Ethiopian rebel forces withdraw from Tigray regional capital
Two residents in Mekelle tell the BBC pro-government forces have taken control of the city. read more
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Christa Pike's prognosis still unclear after failed execution, lawyer says
Pike's lawyer says doctors are still trying to clear two lethal doses of pentobarbital from her body. 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.
