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Likewise, students themselves use grades to gage their abilities. The first-year who enters Harvard as, say, an aspiring biologist might choose an alternative field of concentration after earning consistently low grades in the field. We could view this as unfortunate; after all, it takes time to learn the knack of a new field. What a waste for an enthusiastic mind to turn sour due to one poor grade...
...seen Jurassic Park knows, plants and animals sealed in amber are a potential source of prehistoric DNA. Scientists have extracted genetic material from, among other things, a 17 million-year-old magnolia leaf, a 30 million-year-old termite and a 120 million-year-old weevil. Yet no serious biologist believes it will ever be possible to clone a dinosaur from a few bits of DNA. Even so excellent a preservative as amber apparently can't keep DNA from breaking down into fragments that may be scientifically interesting but are biologically inert. That's one reason many researchers doubt...
Russell's despairing tone is frequently echoed by contemporary thinkers. Thus the French Nobel-prizewinning biologist Jacques Monod writes, "Man at last knows that he is alone in the unfeeling immensity of the universe, out of which he has emerged only by chance...
...knowledge about the genes of personality, will employers and insurers use genetic work-ups to deny jobs to those inclined to love thrills? Will parents demand prenatal testing to weed out children who have the "wrong" personality genes? "They are big issues," admits Dr. Richard Ebstein, a molecular biologist who led the research team at Jerusalem's S. Herzog Memorial Hospital, "and they will come...
...scientific findings is more so. It not only adds pieces to this intriguing puzzle but also goes one step further: making an analogy between the events of the Cambrian explosion and the characteristics of a chaotic system. In so doing, you raise a disturbing question: Might not theoretical biologist Stuart Kauffman's idea of the intrinsic instability of the evolving system be greatest when the gradient of change is at its steepest? If so, is the closing paragraph of your report pointing out the precariousness of human existence in the face of the current technological ''big bang''? CHARLES F. (''CHICK...