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...Harvard biologist had won the award since its inception in 1985. Wilson will be awarded a medal and ten million yen (roughly $95,000) at a ceremony in Tokyo on November...
...attention Profet's work is getting, including a prominent story last week in the New York Times. That largely uncritical article included praise for Profet from anthropologist Donald Symonds of the University of California at Santa Barbara -- without mentioning that he is a close friend of the biologist...
...quarter-century later, Profet, 35, thinks she has finally made sense of it all, and in a startling turnaround, it is her views that are bugging the experts. Writing in the current issue of the respected Quarterly Review of Biology, the evolutionary biologist from the University of California, Berkeley, has proposed a radical theory of menstruation that not only challenges accepted wisdom but stands it on its head. According to Profet, a woman's flow is not some incidental event in the reproductive process or just a sign of failed fertility. Instead, it is a mechanism that protects fertility...
...biologist concedes that she did not run her paper by practicing doctors. "Gynecologists have no training or background in analyzing evolutionary adaptations," she says. "This paper is not primarily a clinical work. The principal part of it is zoological...
...that also threaten the animals. Commercial fisheries deplete the whales' feeding grounds and disrupt their breeding areas and nurseries. Scientists suspect that PCBs, pesticides and other toxic chemicals leak into rivers and out to sea, weaken whales' immune systems and drive down their birthrates. Observes Scott Kraus, a marine biologist with the New England Aquarium: "The public gets hung up on whaling, but what's really worse is what we flush down the toilet...