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Llinas' and Crick and Koch's concepts, speculative though they may be, are at least firmly rooted in biology. But you don't have to be a biologist or a neuroscientist to play the consciousness game: the mystery is intriguing enough so that researchers from a wide variety of scientific disciplines have jumped in with their own ideas. Oxford mathematician Roger Penrose, for example, argues that consciousness may arise from quantum mechanics, of all things, the same process that governs the behavior of subatomic particles...
Given the unsettled state of the environmental movement and the vengeful mood of its adversaries, a party thrown last weekend at Chico Hot Springs, Montana, was a good bet not to happen. But it did. The Wolf Fund, a tiny activist group set up in 1986 by wildlife biologist Renee Askins, 27, declared victory, gave a few cheers and disbanded. Askins had moved to Moose, Wyoming, in 1981 with the idea of helping get gray wolves re-established in Yellowstone National Park. The process, she thought, might take two or three years. It took a decade more than that...
...this brutally taxing role of doomed prodigy quite the dancing-flame intensity that Emma Fielding did. And the new Septimus (Billy Crudup) has the aplomb but not the haunted intellectual uneasiness Rufus Sewell conveyed. A pleasing surprise, however, is Robert Sean Leonard, playing Valentine Coverly, a modern-day biologist and computer scientist. As Claudio in Kenneth Branagh's film Much Ado About Nothing, Leonard looked thoroughly out of his element while trying to do what stage actors traditionally do--proclaim words of love in ornamental verse. Here, in an odder role that requires him to speak of mathematics in hard...
...news stunned developmental biologists around the world. For until now, no one suspected that the eyeless gene was so powerful, capable of taking precedence over other genes, like those responsible for elaborating wings and legs. That an eye might partly form on a limb made sense, but not so perfect an eye, complete with all its light receptors. Marvels William McGinnis, a Yale University biologist: "All you have to do, it seems, is switch on the eyeless gene, and you get these beautiful eyes...
...inescapable: the mammalian gene and the fly gene are so closely related that they are almost certainly derived from a precursor gene in a common ancestor--quite possibly some sort of sea-dwelling worm that lived 500 million or so years ago. "What does this mean?" asks molecular biologist Charles Zuker, of the Howard Hughes Institute in San Diego, with a half smile. "It means that we are basically just big flies...