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...Gibbs, and George Kistiakowsky, Lawrence Professor of Chemistry Emeritus and former National Science Advisor. Kistiakowsky's dog, a Welsh Corgi named Nikki, gave a speech describing his encounters with Checkers during Kistiakowsky's tenure in the Eisenhower administration. Many Gibbsians believe that Nikki is actually the reincarnation of Darwin's Beagle...
...most complicated and powerful of human gifts. It often has the splendor of inspiration and sheer surprise. The development of zero as a tangible number is a breathtaking conception; the idea, like some arithmetical antimatter, was among the forces that eventually propelled man into space. Darwin's thought enforced an intellectual evolution of its own. So did Freud's and Einstein...
...though, Harris's task is even more difficult. Harris poses a theory of cultural history paralleling Darwin's theory of natural selection--that cultural forms either adapt and survive or give way to "fitter" varieties. It is based on considerably more concrete evidence than the pioneering labors of Leakey and his father. Harris has made numerous field trips to Mozambique, India, Ecuador and Brazil in search of ancient cultures. And one can theorize with a fair degree of accuracy about what, say, the Aztecs ate and wore based on the archaelogical remains. These are far more accessible than those...
...prayers were not answered. No less a scientist than Biologist Thomas Henry Huxley further espoused the idea in his 1863 Man's Place in Nature. Darwin won many new converts to his concept in 1871 with the publication of The Descent of Man. Most convincing of all, the fossil record continued to reveal that man had not always existed in his present form. That more primitive men might once have walked the earth was suggested when a skull was found at Gibraltar in 1848 that was more evolved than the skulls of apes but less so than that of modern...
...inflammation. Some doctors also implicate bodily chemicals, notably histamine and serotonin. Investigators at Baylor University have even reported that over a prolonged period of time migraines may damage some brain cells?apparently without any noticeable mental impairment. Migraine sufferers have included such intellectual stalwarts as Jefferson, Freud, Nietzsche and Darwin. Lewis Carroll is thought to have conceived the more bizarre scenes in his Alice's Adventures in Wonderland during the hallucinatory "auras"?flashing of lights before the eyes ?that often precede the headaches...