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Musk says any limits on Ukraine's Starlink access down to US, not his firm
Ukraine says Starlink access has improved but it is still facing speed limits which are disrupting its battlefield "missions". read more
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Student protesters attack government buildings in Tirana
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Pope walking and recovering 'as expected' after surgery, doctors say
The 71-year-old Pope was diagnosed with lung cancer after the 90-minute procedure on Tuesday. read more
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US inflation rises more than expected - here's what is happening with prices
The pace of price rises increased to 3.7% in the year to September, driving by higher motor fuel costs. read more
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Germany puts Ukrainian on trial accused of blowing up Nord Stream pipelines
Four years after the attacks, Serhii Kuznetsov appears in court accused of a plot to destroy Russia's gas pipelines to Germany. 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.
