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Carpenter and her team traced the evolution of cigarette product design from the 1970s to the present. They found that female-specific brands, like Virginia Slims, constitute a much smaller percentage of the female market today than they did for previous generations. Instead, Carpenter said that cigarette companies are making...
For Henry Gee, an editor at venerable Nature who was responsible for overseeing publication of the original H. floresiensis article, such squabbling is par for the course. "Science is a disputatious business, and human evolution is notorious for being even more disputatious. historically, whenever anyone discovers a new hominid, a...
(2 of 2) The virulence of the invective isn't surprising given what's at stake. If proved correct, the existence of H. floresiensis would be nothing less than a revolution in the understanding of human evolution. It's not just that a new species has been claimed to be...
During his time at Harvard, Gould developed an evolutionary theory known as “punctuated equilibrium,” which suggests that the process of evolution is broken up by short periods of relatively rapid change and is not slow and steady as once thought.
Few game designers are ambitious enough to even contemplate a game in which you get to control the entire evolution of a species, from the bacterial level all the way up to the galactic. Then again, few game designers are as quietly ambitious as Will Wright, creator of Sim City...