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...follows: Paige (Renée L. Pastel ’09) is the seemingly dutiful and devoted wife of Lars (Arlo D. Hill ’08) who decides to throw a dinner party to celebrate the publication of his Nietzschean empowerment/philosophy text. Invited guests include: Hal, the biologist (Simon N. Nicholas ’07); his wife Sian, the “newsbabe” (Catrin M. Lloyd-Bollard ’08); and Wynne, the dumb blonde (Julia L. Renaud ’09). It soon becomes apparent from Paige’s neurotic preparations and treatment...
Last year, Harvard biologist Andrew A. Biewener and then-grad student Monica A. Daley made seven helmeted guinea fowl—birds similar to pheasants—dash down a 20-foot-long plywood runway. Not just any old plywood runway, mind you, but one equipped with a device that measures force and a high-speed digital video camera...
Committee co-chair and biologist Andrew Murray retorted, “I suspect that in 1956, your counterpart might have said, ‘I expect to see great research going on in biology and physics but not in this new field of molecular biology...
...have to be a biologist or ananthropologist to see how closely the great apes--gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans--resemble us. Even a child can see that their bodies are pretty much the same as ours, apart from some exaggerated proportions and extra body hair. Apes have dexterous hands much like ours but unlike those of any other creature. And, most striking of all, their faces are uncannily expressive, showing a range of emotions that are eerily familiar. That's why we delight in seeing chimps wearing tuxedos, playing the drums or riding bicycles. It's why a potbellied...
...genetic differences between chimps and humans, therefore, must be relatively subtle. And they can't all be due simply to a slightly different mix of genes. Even before the human genome was sequenced back in 2000, says biologist Sean Carroll of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, "it was estimated that humans had 100,000 genes. When we got the genome, the estimate dropped to 25,000. Now we know the overall number is about 22,000, and it might even come down...