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...small but growing group of scholars--evolutionary psychologists--are trying to do better. With a method less fanciful than Freud's, they're beginning to sketch the contours of the human mind as designed by natural selection. Some of them even anticipate the coming of a field called "mismatch theory," which would study maladies resulting from contrasts between the modern environment and the "ancestral environment," the one we were designed for. There's no shortage of such maladies to study. Rates of depression have been doubling in some industrial countries roughly every 10 years. Suicide is the second most common...
...third approach, called chemical mismatch cleavage, is as accurate as the resolvase method but is not widely used because it requires chemicals which are either explosive or mutagenic...
...deer, bears, horses and some 50 woolly rhinos. "These paintings are more beautiful than those in Lascaux," says Patrice Baghain, the regional head of cultural affairs. "There is a sense of rhythm and texture that is truly remarkable." One mural shows several horses apparently charging-in a Stone Age mismatch-toward two rhinos...
...Whip, unseating veteran Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.), incoming Majority Leader Robert Dole's right-hand man, and giving more conservative Republicans a strong grip on the Senate leadership. In winning thepost of Democratic leader, Daschle edged the more combative Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.), 24-23, suggesting a philosophical mismatch with a hard-line Democratic House minority under Rep. Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.), who was re-elected Wednesday...
Green left under a cloud of speculation and disarray in the administration and questions about an apparent mismatch between a man and his mission...