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...this bear finally staggers, then stretches out on the ice like a giant sheep dog. The helicopter sets down, and biologist Gerald Garner advances, kicking the bear in the behind to make sure it is immobilized. A swivel of its head and a flashing of teeth warn Garner that there is plenty of defiance left in this 272-kg (600-lb.) carnivore. With a syringe, he injects more drug. At last the head droops, and Garner can proceed. Around the bear's neck he fastens a vinyl collar containing a computer that will send data to a satellite, allowing scientists...
...passion for the little winged creatures took her to Yale, Harvard, Oxford and Princeton. And now, the 35-year-old biologist has returned to Cambridge, not only as Harvard's first-ever Hessell Professor of Biology's, but also as the Museum of Comparative Biology's curator of Lepidoptera...
...passion for the little winged creatures took her to Yale, Harvard, Oxford and Princeton. And now, the 35-year-old biologist has returned to Cambridge, not only as Harvard's first-ever Hessell Professor of Biology, but also as the Museum of Comparative Biology's curator of Lepidoptera...
...research offers evidence that there may indeed be a physiological basis for sexual orientation. In a study of 41 brains taken from people who died before age 60, Simon LeVay, a biologist at San Diego's Salk Institute for Biological Studies, found that one tiny region in the brain of homosexual men was more like that in women than that in heterosexual men. "Sexuality is an important part of who we are," notes LeVay, who is gay. "And now we have a specific part of the brain to look at and to study...
Over the years much research on homosexuality has been motivated by a desire to eradicate the behavior rather than understand, let alone celebrate, diversity. (A notorious German biologist, for instance, claims that prenatal hormone injections could act as a "vaccine" against homosexuality.) LeVay and others hope their work will enable humans to view homosexuality the way other species seem to see it: as a normal variation of sexual behavior...