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Similar reasoning applies to evolution. According to the orthodox view, Darwinian selection is utterly blind. Any impression that the transition from microbes to man represents progress is pure chauvinism on our part. The path of evolution is merely a random walk through the realm of possibilities.
There is, however, a contrary view--one that is gaining strength and directly challenges orthodox biology. It is that complexity can emerge spontaneously through a process of self-organization. If matter and energy have an inbuilt tendency to amplify and channel organized complexity, the odds against the formation of life...
For Natchez in particular, the growth has been emotional as well as professional. He has to grope for words when he describes his music. It's always difficult to explain the dynamics of a personal evolution.
Peimer says she sees the restructuring as "a loss of attention to undergraduates" and the beginning of Radcliffe's evolution into a think tank or public policy center.
9 ONE SMALL STEP One of evolution's enduring mysteries--the date when our ancestors first walked upright--may be close to being solved. Researchers working in Kenya found an ancient leg bone and other fossils, suggesting that bipedalism emerged at least 4 million years ago, 500,000 years earlier...