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  • Luxury Dubai hotel hit as Iran launches retaliatory strikes across region

    Smoke and flames rose from Dubai's Fairmont The Palm hotel as civilian targets came under fire along with the US military bases across the middle east. read more

  • Iran retaliation raises questions about US air defences

    Iran's strike on US Navy base in Bahrain will worry Washington and its allies in the region. read more

  • At least 20 killed after military plane carrying banknotes crashes in Bolivia

    Police fire tear gas to disperse crowds allegedly trying to take banknotes from the crash site. read more

  • Bill Clinton asked about hot tub photo and testifies he knew 'nothing' of Epstein crimes

    The former president told the committee that he would never have flown on Epstein's plane if he "had any inkling of what he was doing". read more

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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.

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