NEWS HEADLINES
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Trump buys time for Iran deal after frantic day of diplomacy
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EU decides on key €90bn Ukraine loan after pipeline deadlock ends
The funding was agreed last December, but it has been held up in a row over Russian oil supplies to Hungary. read more
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South Korean fighter jets collided due to pilots taking pictures, report finds
One of the pilots has been fined thousands of dollars by the military to cover repair costs. read more
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Mexico officials say Teotihuacán gunman carried material related to US mass shooting
The gunman visited the archaeological site repeatedly and appeared to act alone. read more
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Taiwan president cancels trip after African countries revoke flight permits
Taiwan has accused Beijing of putting pressure on African countries to close their airspace to Lai's plane. 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.
