Word: evolutionism
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Indigo Girls have been so good for so long--they were formed in 1983--it's easy to yawn when they come out with yet another solid album. It's sort of like Michael Jordan scoring 30 points: unless he scores 50, is it really news? Still, Indigo Girls' pleasant...
But something more was involved than Nuland's experience and surgical skill. The patient survived, he believes, because of her will to live. This instinct, the product of eons of evolution, is evidence to the author that humans are greater than the sum of their 75 trillion constituent parts, their...
Why hasn't evolution produced more mice with rippling chests? "We're just starting to look into this," Lee explains. The burly mice seem to be a little slower and less timid than their normal counterparts. "That probably wouldn't be much of an advantage in the wild," says Lee...
Scientists believe the dopamine system arose very early in the course of animal evolution because it reinforces behaviors so essential to survival. "If it were not for the fact that sex is pleasurable," observes Charles Schuster of Wayne State University in Detroit, "we would not engage in it." Unfortunately, some...
Most, if not all, professors teach according to the case method. Students learn an area of law by reading hundreds of court decisions describing specific disputes. Each case adds a layer to the evolution of the doctrinal framework.