Word: darwins
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...example, Social Studies 98ic, “Why Americans Love God and Europeans Don’t,” and Human Evolutionary Biology 1355, “Darwin Seminar: Evolution and Religion,” would both satisfy the Reason and Faith requirement, according to the report...
Scientists didn't need to wait for the chimp genome tobegin speculating about the essential differences between humans and apes, of course. They didn't even need to know about DNA. Much of the vitriol directed at Charles Darwin a century and a half ago came not from his ideas about evolution in general but from his insulting but logical implication that humans and the African apes are descended from a common ancestor...
...canine teeth, and opposable thumbs. Using comparative analyses of these attributes, along with dating that shows when various features appeared or vanished, they have constructed increasingly elaborate family trees that show the relationships between apes, ancient hominids and us. Along the way they learned, among other things, that Darwin, even with next to no actual data, was close to being right in his intuition that apes and humans are descended from a single common ancestor--and, surprisingly, that the ability to walk upright emerged millions of years before the evolution of our big brains...
...unofficial video-making competition. According to two former soldiers who served in Iraq, the troops produced what may have amounted to thousands of videos, many of them edited in an Army-provided computer room. Most of the videos on the website feature soldiers from a unit of the Darwin-based 2 Cavalry regiment which provided security for Australian diplomats in Baghdad until 2005. Someone referred to as Sean, who goes by the Internet nickname of pomstar, takes credit on the website for posting the videos. Sean writes that he spent "eight years in the Australian army, serving...
Jennings is hip enough to make fun of his freakish triviaphilia but savvy enough to indulge it too--part of the joy of Brainiac is learning that Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on the same day and that Charles Bronson was the only member of both The Magnificent Seven and The Dirty Dozen. There's something touching about the world of trivia. It's a place where minutiae have a paradoxical grandeur and no fact is meaningless. Or as the coach of Carleton's quiz-bowl team puts it, "Everything's going to be worth 10 points someday...