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Allan Wilson, Rebecca Cann and Mark Stoneking determine that all living humans share a common ancestor: "mitochondrial...
...toilet), because, said Watson with a triumphant grin, they were sure that?s where it would wind up. Predictions from the Future of Life conference for the year 2010: By then we?ll have sequenced the complete tree of life, possibly even breeds long extinct, including the common ancestor of humans and chimps. My ambition would be to shake hands with Lucy. ?Author Richard Dawkins, Oxford University Medicine will become thoroughly personalized. For under $1,000 we will be able to get our entire genome sequenced in only half an hour. Doctors will be able to tell almost instantly whether...
...That honor belongs to his great-grandson, Cosimo I de' Medici (1519-74), the linchpin of this show. He was installed as the first Grand Duke of Tuscany after his uncle Allesandro de' Medici was murdered. He had an obsessive desire for magnificenza and was determined to outdo his ancestor--which, in terms of cultural spending, he did. Never had art and secular politics been brought closer together than in late Medicean Florence. Cosimo's patronage dominated the production of visual meaning and the consumption of art in the city, rather as the ownership of a local TV station might...
...That honor belongs to his great-grandson, Cosimo I de' Medici (1519-74), the linchpin of this show. He was installed as the first Grand Duke of Tuscany after his uncle Alessandro de' Medici was murdered. He had an obsessive desire for magnificenza and was determined to outdo his ancestor - which, in terms of cultural spending, he did. Never had art and secular politics been brought closer together than in late Medicean Florence. Cosimo's patronage dominated the production of visual meaning and the consumption of art in the city, rather as the ownership of a local TV station might...
Orenstein locates the fairy tale’s earliest ancestor in a 17th-century oral folktale, “The Grandmother’s Tale,” and reproduces a version from the French countryside. Creepy and grotesque, the story is anything but a nursery rhyme. The wolf, waiting eagerly in bed, feeds the little girl (here, sans red riding hood) a jar of her grandmother’s blood and then coaxes her to perform a slow striptease. With each garment removed, he urges her, “Throw it on the fire, my child. You won?...