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...recently as five years ago, all that scientists could really tell about our earliest ancestors was when they first appeared. Molecular biologists had measured the differences between human and chimpanzee DNA, then averaged the rate of genetic change over time. By calculating backward, they determined that great apes and hominids branched from a common ancestor between 6 million and 4 million years ago. But no fossils were on hand to support this scenario. The oldest hominid species known, Australopithecus afarensis (southern ape of the Afar), could be dated back only 3.6 million years. Its most famous member, Lucy, unearthed...
...learned to shoot, haunted gun shows and went so far as to get myself a gun dealer's license just to see how easily such licenses could be obtained. The deeper I ventured into the culture, the more it seemed to me that the nation had bent over backward to ensure a brisk flow of guns to felons, wife killers and assorted other lunatics...
...frightened," she recalls later. An employee of the TV-ad-sales company Adlink, based in Los Angeles, Johnson has already walked a tightrope and shouted strings of nonsense words in a rhythm exercise to a group of colleagues today. Now she's being asked to make a "trust fall" backward off a ladder into the arms of a dozen virtual strangers. Taking a deep breath, she says, "I, Lorrie, choose to fall." And fall she does. "When they caught me, it was such tremendous relief and exhilaration," she says afterward. "I went from fear to excitement. I was proud...
While I was heartened to see that Adam A. Sofen decided to share the insights he learned during his visits with the hopelessly backward people of the Mississippi Delta (Opinion, July 9), I feel I must challenge a few of his assertions...
While I was heartened to see that Adam A. Sofen decided to share the insights he learned during his visits with the hopelessly backward people of the Mississippi Delta (Opinion, July 9), I feel I must challenge a few of his assertions...