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...saying all those nice things about the human race? The first question is simpler than the second. Lewis Thomas, 65, is a doctor and an administrator (currently president and chief executive officer of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City). He is a biologist, a researcher and a professor. He is a published poet and, quite possibly, the best essayist on science now working anywhere in the world...
...greatest fears center on the herds of caribou, whose annual migrations across the arctic wastes began long before the first Siberians touched North America. Biologist David R. Klein of the Alaska Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit has already spotted trouble in a herd of some 6,000 caribou that has traditionally ranged north to south from the Arctic Ocean to the foothills of the Brooks Range. Since the coming of the pipeline, says Klein, cows with calves have shown a marked reluctance to pass under the raised stretches of the conduit and to cross the road itself. Migratory patterns also seem...
...DISCUSSION of catastrophe theory's history, the writers trace the influence of 19th-century mathematician Henri Poincare and 20th-century biologist D'Arcy Thompson on the thought of Rene Thom, a leading differential topologist at the French Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies. Thom's vision of an underlying geometric order to natural processes led to his publication of Structural Stability and Morphogenesis in 1972, eight years after he had formulated the models which were to become the foundation of catastrophe theory...
...first, laughs Woods Hole Biologist J. Frederick Grassle, "we didn't believe it." But since that original bit of serendipity, during Alvin's probings of the earth's great undersea rift zones, scientists have convinced themselves the spectacular pink giants are no joke. Indeed, the odd creatures have, so to speak, opened a whole new can of worms...
Contemporary Woman Scientists--Bonnie Spanier, biologist, Agassiz House...