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Texas flood victims: Girl 'having time of her life' and 'heart and soul' of camp
Eight-year-old Renee Smajstrla and "strong and powerful" camp director Jane Ragsdale were swept away. read more
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Gaza ceasefire talks begin in Qatar as Netanyahu heads to Washington
Hamas said it has responded to the latest ceasefire proposal positively but there are still gaps to be bridged. read more
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Hamas security officer says group has lost control over most of Gaza
The officer says Israeli strikes have devastated the group's leadership and structure, and that armed clans are filling the void. read more
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US deports eight men to South Sudan after legal battle
The US Supreme Court had overturned a judge's decision that the men be allowed to contest their removal. read more
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Archaeologists unveil 3,500-year-old city in Peru
Researchers believe Peñico served as a trading hub linking ancient Pacific coast communities with those living in the Andes and Amazon. 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.
