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The Constitution has stayed sturdy and relevant in large part because the Justices have been able to adapt it to what Jus tice Holmes called "the felt necessities of the time." Such a task is delicate, to be undertaken with reverence for established principle and the slow evolution of fundamental...
This idea has recently exploded into one of the hottest topics in science today and has raised a host of intriguing scientific and philosophical questions. It has also spawned intense controversy about astronomy, evolution, and the origins of life.
The justification for this new idea came from a series of startling geological studies in the late 1970s by two University of Chicago geologists. David Raup and John Sepkowski. By carefully analyzing fossil records of the evolution of marine animals, the two concluded that large-scale extinctions occur about every...
Some believe the theory strengthens Aggassiz Professor of Zoology Stephen J. Gould's and Niles Eldridge's theory of "punctuated equilibrium," which holds that evolution proceeds in bursts rather than gradual increments.
Before his controlling joke ("prefaces that lead nowhere") wears thin, Lem concludes his fictional anthology with a series of pseudo-documents that seem to have a middle and end as well as a beginning. GOLEM XIV is the last in a line of increasingly super computers developed to monitor the...