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Despite his title, Gould is not, strictly speaking, a geologist, but other labels don't exactly suit him either. He is probably best described as an evolutionary biologist--an admiring disciple of Charles Darwin. As Darwin has come under increasing attack by right-wing forces in the country--while Gould's career, firmly anchored to the theory of evolution, has flourished--the professor has taken an increasingly public role in defiance of "creationists...
...scholarly journals over 12 years, Gould published his first book, an academic work called, Ontogeny and Phylogeny. (If you think the former recapitulates the latter, think again.) Two years later, he published his first collection of the monthly essays he still writes for Natural History Magazine. Entitled Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History, the book established Gould as a writer of considerable appeal outside of the scientific community. He published another essay collection in 1980, The Panda's Thumb, which won the American Book Award and broadened his audience even further. Gould is now, according to an executive...
...which Helms and other right-wing social activists are pressing to remake the nation in their own image. Helms' America would be a land where certain stern Christian principles prevail and free enterprise is enshrined, where abortion is outlawed, classrooms ring with the sound of children at prayer and Darwin is just a theorist, where school buses rust quietly in their garages, and sex and violence are banished from television screens and library shelves, where men are men and women know their place, which is in the home.* As America rides the cusp of a Reagan-inspired reversion to basics...
...Fowles had cloaked Sarah and Charles in a cunning conundrum. This Victorian novel is also a meditation on the novel form, and on a hundred other subjects that occupy the teeming mind of the book's 20th century narrator. He sprinkles references throughout, not just to Marx and Darwin but to latter-day prophets like Roland Barthes and "the egregious McLuhan." His scenic route through the Dorset flora and fauna includes side trips into the thickets of political and social theory. He announces his presence at every plot turn-probing his characters' thoughts on one page, shrugging genially...
John E. Cronin, associate professor of Anthropology, said in a statement to reporters. "What we think we've done is to confirm Darwin's and Huxley's views on evolution...