Word: jablonski
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Over the summer, Erwin pondered this problem with two paleontologist friends, David Jablonski of the University of Chicago and James Valentine of the University of California, Berkeley. Primitive multicelled organisms like jellyfish, they reasoned, have three so-called homeotic homeobox genes, or Hox genes, which serve as the master controllers of embryonic development. Flatworms have four, arthropods like fruit flies have eight, and the primitive chordate Branchiostoma (formerly known as Amphioxus) has 10. So around 550 million years ago, Erwin and the others believe, some wormlike creature expanded its Hox cluster, bringing the number of genes up to six. Then...
...What's new about the Cambrian?" she asked David Jablonski, a paleontologist at the University of Chicago...
...must come down here today, now, this very minute," Jablonski replied. He told Nash that a colleague had just returned from an expedition to Namibia, where he had unearthed fossils that shed amazing new light on evolution's "Big Bang"--the unparalleled explosion of life forms that sprang into being during the Cambrian period. So began an odyssey that led Nash to labs, museums and rocky outcroppings across the country, and culminated in the extraordinary report in this week's issue...
Some people are capable--or think themselves Capable--of preventing the unsavory behavior they see in movies or hear about in songs from tainting their interactions with others. But for every enlightened citizen capable of making such careful distinctions, there are ten less enlightened citizens who cannot. Jennifer Jablonski, a 14-yearold from Pittsburgh, told the Times interviewer about her older brother, who behaves very differently towards her since he started listening to rap music and watching R-rated movies. "He changed," she said. "Just from listening to rap, he is starting to use bad words. He calls...
...such depth and such talent on thebench," Delany Smith said. "If Liz was cold Icould go to Sara. And is Sara was cold I could goto Karun Grossman. And next year watch out forCarrie Jablonski. She's a pure shooter, who mightchallenge some of Erin Maher's records...