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Stephen Jay Gould, Mayr's successor to the Agassiz professorship, wrote in the February issue of the science journal Evolution that 1904 was significant for being the year the ice cream cone was invented and the first Olympic games were held in America.
In fact, the entire issue of Evolution was devoted to celebrating Mayr's 90th birthday. Mayr served as the magazine's first editor in 1947.
In modern democratic societies, power flows from the design of an institution with a broad, credible mandate which boasts popular and ongoing support and the efficient exercise and evolution of the institution. Every written mandate, from the U.S. Constitution to the constitution of the Harvard-Radcliffe Canadian Club, is a...
Professor Martin offered a unique angle on The Bell Curve by tracing the evolution of racist theorization from the Hamitic myth, to Thomas Jefferson's notions of natural aristocracy, to Social Darwinism, to The Bell Curve theory. His speech raised interesting points that serve to further the debate. Whether we...
Tone Poems is a beautiful, generous album. Grisman and Rice have devoted themselves to preserving and documenting "the sounds of the great vintage guitars and mandolins." To that end, they each play 17 instruments, one for each of the album's tracks, with Rice on guitar and Grisman on mandolin...