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...long after protein first appeared. Then how, without the complex ribosome "factories," was primitive protein produced? Last week, in a report published in the journal Origin of Life, a team of molecular biologists suggested an answer. If the hypothesis is correct, says one of the researchers, it could alter Darwin's theory of natural selection and current concepts of genetic engineering...
...GOLF COURSE, Darwin brought the same irascible Victorian dogmatism both in his demeanor and his ornate 19th century swing. Accustomed to the Norfolk jackets and knickers worn in earlier decades, Darwin was confronted by a Canadian pro wearing a lumber-jacket shirt with clashing patches of rainbow colors at the 1955 Commonwealth Games. Unable to pacify his aesthetic indigation, Darwin approached the Canadian and said: "I say, are those your old school colors or your own unfortunate choice...
...Darwin truly was a devotee of the old school and although the selections in every way retain their infectious appeal, it is best to relish Mostly Golf in the Pickwickian sense. One is transported into a long forgotten and a more idyllic world that belies reality. Mostly Golf conveys the indian summer tranquillity of Victorian England before the First otherwise sleepy hamlets turned out for cricket matches and the landed aristocracy played over the heath and whins of sedate seaside links...
Perhaps it is best to remember Darwin's genius and the society in which it found its calling by a paragraph from "The Evening Round." Darwin wrote this essay after reading over his boyhood diary and discovering that he usually played his first eighteen of the spring sometime during the past week. Long after those youthful eighteens, he recalls...
...rounds chronicled by Darwin will not come back but in Mostly Golf we at least get a vivid if all too fleeting glimpse of the pageantry and splendor that belonged to the likes of James Braid, Bobby Jones, the olive-skinned Gene Sarazen with his Cheshire Cat grin, and "the Haig" with his oriental eyelids and brilliantined hair bestriding the fairways of Muirfield. For as the Scotch have been wont to say since those colorful days of James II: they were all "grand gowfers a', nane better...