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...just a bad weekend. Something out of the ordinary happened, " says University of Arizona paleontologist David Jablonski. "It may have taken hundreds of years, but there is no question that there have been mass extinctions which shaped life, in unpredictable ways...
Gould shares the credit for punctuated equilibrium with Niles Eldredge, a paleontologist at New York's Museum of Natural History...
...should the layman be interested in so esoteric a subject as evolutionary biology? It is a question that Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould has heard before. But as he sits in his cluttered office, amid the assorted books, charts and fossil remains that are the very sinew of his profession, he smiles tolerantly. "Why?" he asks. "Because it tells us where we came from, how we got here, and perhaps where we are going. Quite simply, it is science's version of Roots, except it is the story...
...entire short novel by Gabriel García Márquez, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature, the magazine bought rights to a dozen new paintings and drawings from celebrated fellow Colombian Fernando Botero. There are lively, offbeat articles: Gore Vidal reporting from the Gobi Desert, Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould speculating on why .400 hitters have disappeared from baseball. More predictably in a culture magazine, there are discerning reviews by Novelist Robert Stone of Joan Didion's Latin American reportage in her book Salvador, and by Staff Editor Walter demons and Los Angeles Times Music Critic Martin...
...publications of the Institute for Creation Research (2716 Madison Ave., San Diego, CA 92116), a body of scientists with Ph.D.s in biology, chemistry, and geology, do not base their arguments on divine deception. In fact, spokesman/biochemist Duane T. Gish, author of Evolution? The Fossils Say No (1973), recently debated paleontologist Ashley Montague at Princeton, where Montague made Gish's point for him when he exclaimed. "Of course it (the fossil record) looks like creation!" I myself do not think it necessarily does, but I would like students in Arkansas and elsewhere to have a chance to decide for themselves. Todd...