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...fact, that fossils from the species were first found thousands of miles away from its original home in Africa. In the 1890s, Eugene Dubois, an adventurous Dutch physician, joined his country's army as an excuse to get to the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). Dubois agreed with Charles Darwin's idea that early humans and great apes were closely related. Since the East Indies had orangutans, Dubois thought, they might have fossils of the "missing link...
...time of the Neander Valley find, Charles Darwin had not yet published his famous The Origin of Species, and evolution was still, at best, only a hazy conjecture among a handful of scientists. Indeed, most people then believed that human beings had remained essentially unchanged since creation...
Other contenders for the Republican nominationare talk show host Janet Jeghelian, radioadvertising salesperson Gary Todd, Mildred F.Jefferson and James Darwin Carter...
...other species. The lesser creatures, Rene Descartes contended in 1637, are little more than automatons, sleepwalking through life without a mote of self- awareness. The French thinker found it inconceivable that an animal might have the ability to "use words or signs, putting them together as we do." Charles Darwin delivered an unsettling blow to this doctrine a century ago when he asserted that humans were linked by common ancestry to the rest of the animal kingdom. Darwinism raised a series of tantalizing questions for future generations: If other vertebrates are similar to humans in blood and bone, should they...
...author exposes the reader to his own wonder with each of his personal science heroes, from Darwin to Halley. A "Careful reading," Gould suggests, gives a new lease on life to theories ridiculed or scorned by today's haughty and careless scholars. In a seeming reversal of his desire to combat the complacent and traditional nature of Darwinist thought, Gould even goes as far as to suggest we need a mythology of science...