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...Souter says that biologist Michael Golubovsky has been postulating on this type of twin for some time, calling them sesquizygotic, and has laid out some potential mechanisms. "It's fascinating that he has described these twins and also had suggested that it may be associated with a disorder of sex development...
...June of 1860, less than a year after the publication of Darwin’s “The Origin of Species,” Samuel Wilberforce, the Bishop of Oxford, and biologist Thomas Huxley addressed the claims of the controversial book in a highly publicized debate. Wilberforce, speaking first, ended his oration by asking Huxley whether his apish ancestors were to be found on his mother’s or his father’s side. Huxley’s reply, now a cocktail party quotable for Darwinists the world over, was no less uncompromising...
...HUSSEIN, biologist, describing the scene surrounding two car bombs that exploded in a crowded Baghdad market, killing at least 88 people, one of the worst civilian bloodbaths since the war in Iraq began...
...SECOND REASON THAT INFORMATION MAY BE SEALED OFF FROM consciousness is strategic. Evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers has noted that people have a motive to sell themselves as beneficent, rational, competent agents. The best propagandist is the one who believes his own lies, ensuring that he can't leak his deceit through nervous twitches or self-contradictions. So the brain might have been shaped to keep compromising data away from the conscious processes that govern our interaction with other people. At the same time, it keeps the data around in unconscious processes to prevent the person from getting...
...scientists in consideration include Thomas R. Cech, a 1989 Nobel laureate in chemistry and president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Steven Chu, a 1997 Nobel laureate in physics at Stanford who directs the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; biologist Eric S. Lander, director of the Harvard-MIT Broad Institute; and chemist Mark S. Wrighton, chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis and a former MIT provost...