NEWS HEADLINES
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Meta fined $567m in largest child safety ruling against social media giant
A New Mexico judge ordered the Instagram, Facebook and Whatsapp parent company to pay another $567m for the way it has harmed children. read more
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Trump denies US weapons shortage and says information 'leakers' being 'hunted down'
While precise data is classified, publicly available information suggests the US has used up many difficult-to-manufacture weapons. read more
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Uefa says boycott may still go ahead as FA withdraws Infantino support
Fifa's backing of president Gianni Infantino at a meeting on Wednesday "changes nothing", says European governing body Uefa. read more
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Australian aviation crew carries out daring midwinter Antarctica rescue
Team evacuated a patient from McMurdo Station after landing plane in total darkness and temperature of -43°C. read more
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Trump again tries to limit US birthright citizenship with new executive orders
The executive orders ban birth tourism and expand the existing definition of people whose children are not eligible for US birthright citizenship. 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.
