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...biological kingdom, called Archaea (from archaic), to accommodate them. As the name suggests, Archaea may be similar to the very first organisms that populated the earth billions of years ago. The implication: life on our planet may first have arisen, not in a warm tidal pool as Darwin and others theorized, but under conditions of sulfurous, searing heat...
...think this wasn't the case right from the beginning. Evolution provides plenty of examples in which new types of animals emerge not just as single species but as collections of similar species that share many but not all physical attributes. The rich diversity of finches that Charles Darwin discovered in the Galapagos Islands is perhaps the most famous example...
...Ojeda, 63, who has known the family ever since they moved into the apartment above hers 24 years ago. Padilla played baseball in the school yard across the street and attended St. Sylvester Church with his mother, brother and two sisters. To Ojeda, he was nothing but polite. At Darwin Elementary School, school counselor Art Ryder remembers him not as a bully but as a force. "You always got the feeling that he wasn't looking for trouble--but if you started it, he'd finish it. He had eyes that could stare right through you." Growing...
...Kirkus dusts of its copy of "The Origin of the Species," giving "Charles Darwin: The Power of Place" by Janet Browne (Knopf; September 17) a starred review. "Continuing where 'Charles Darwin: Voyaging' (1995) left off, the British science historian completes her brilliant two-volume biography...For all his apparent desire to be left alone to lead the life of a country gentleman, Darwin was a shrewd self-promoter, vigorously publicizing his work even in the depths of a long illness that Browne suggests may have been brought on in part by his tireless labors...A richly detailed, vivid, and definitive...
...York City. For A Night to Remember-which was made into a 1958 Hollywood movie-Lord tracked down 60 survivors of the disaster. He also served as a consultant for the 1998 blockbuster film Titanic. DIED. STEPHEN JAY GOULD, 60, paleontologist whose theory of evolution challenged that of Charles Darwin's, of cancer; in New York City. Gould, who famously called human evolution "a fortuitous cosmic afterthought," authored The Mismeasure of Man and The Structure of Evolutionary Theory. DIED. CHANG CHANG, 35, the world's oldest captive giant panda, of multiple organ failure; in Jinan, China. Chang Chang's body...