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...such as ferns and pinelike trees still dominated the earth's flora-some 50 million years before flowering plants are believed to have appeared. But palms are flowering plants, or angiosperms (from the Greek angeion, meaning container, and sperma, seed), and play the principal role in what Charles Darwin called "the great abominable mystery of biology." Angiosperms, which embrace everything from tropical palms and northern oak trees to Kentucky bluegrass and backyard rose bushes, had come to dominate the plant kingdom by the end of the Age of Reptiles, 75 million years ago. Indeed, angiosperms provided the essential food...
Weathier tourists are seeking more recondite or merely more ostentatious excursions. At the end of May, the Matson Lines' Monterey sailed from San Francisco with passengers who had paid from $1,510 to $4,565 to visit the Galapagos Islands, where Charles Darwin once pondered the origin of species. Los Angeles' Hemphill Travel Service offers a" 32-day round-the-world tour for 60 people flying in a chartered Convair 990 with stops in Copenhagen, Malagasy. New Guinea and other lands. The fare is $9,960. Lindblad Travel. Inc., which spec;alizes in the exotic, has organized tours...
...Sylvia Bayless last week led her band of protesters to their first mass rally at a Bellvue shopping center. The theme-"Wear a Mini, Bring Your Man to Protest the Midi" -drew 1,000 sympathizers, all of whom dutifully signed on the dotted lines of petitions. Says Mrs. Charlotte Darwin of Goldsboro, N.C., of her prospective...
Half Child, Half Sage. At the outset, it seemed that only luck could have chosen Darwin for his job aboard the Beagle. The fox-hunting son of a prosperous Shrewsbury doctor, the young man proved a dud at school and at Cambridge. At 22, he seemed destined for what Victorians frankly called "a living" in the church. Only a chance friendship with the Rev. Professor J. S. Henslow of Cambridge, a botanist, led to Darwin's recommendation as the Beagle's naturalist. Chance, plus a certain amount of charm, determined that he hit it off immediately with...
Once aboard, Darwin proved immensely industrious. He climbed volcanoes and was shaken by earthquakes. He brooded upon such things as the social organization of army ants. He learned that the Fuegians ate their women in a hard winter (instead of their dogs, which could catch otter). Like a great artist, he was half child, half sage. Nothing, from tiny bugs to the giant fossilized Megatherium, was too small or great to stir his delight. He saw not only the kinship of beasts with man but the kinship of man with the beasts...