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, by MAYOR Mireya
Anyone proposing to offer a master class on changing the world for the better, without becoming negative, cynical, angry or narrow-minded in the process, could model their advice on the life and work of pioneering animal behavior scholar Jane Goodall.
Goodall’s life journey stretches from (…)
, by BENOIT Julien
The Taung child (foreground) was the first of a long series of human ancestors discovered in Africa. Julien Benoit
For nearly a century now the African root of human evolutionary theory has remained strong and unbowed. It is proved by a tremendous fossil record that documents the diversity of (…)
, by KOVER Paula
Given its huge success in describing the natural world for the past 150 years, the theory of evolution is remarkably misunderstood. In a recent episode of the Australian series of “I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here”, former cricket star Shane Warne questioned the theory – asking “if humans (…)
, by FAYYAZUDDIN Ansar
Darwin’s Ghosts, by Rebecca Stott. Spiegel & Grau/Random House, 2012, 416 pages, $17 paperback.
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REBECCA STOTT’S DARWIN’S Ghosts is structured as a collection of episodes in the history of biology. The episodes, labeled by the names of individuals and an associated (…)
, by GASPAR Phil
Reviewed by Phil Gaspar: The Science and Humanism of Stephen Jay Gould . By: Richard York and Brett Clark. New York, Monthly Review Press, 2011, 223 pp. $16.95.
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It has been almost 10 years since the death of the Harvard paleontologist and evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay (…)
, by FAYYAZUDDIN Ansar
STEPHEN JAY GOULD died on May 20, 2002 of cancer at the age of 60. He leaves behind a vast scientific and literary legacy imbued indelibly with his unique humanist and socialist commitments.
For the last thirty-five years Gould was a faculty member at Harvard where he taught geology and the (…)
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