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...real marvel, says Conway Morris, is how familiar so many of these animals seem. For it was during the Cambrian (and perhaps only during the Cambrian) that nature invented the animal body plans that define the broad biological groupings known as phyla, which encompass everything from classes and orders to families, genera and species. For example, the chordate phylum includes mammals, birds and fish. The class Mammalia, in turn, covers the primate order, the hominid family, the genus Homo and our own species, Homo sapiens...
...some of the most knowledgeable people on campus in the field of public service--the student and non-student directors of Philips Brooks House Association (PBHA). As we did in a previous editorial, they supported Greg A. Johnson '72, the director of PBHA, for the position that will encompass his current...
...minutes time slot is crucial. Those hour-long specials never fail to fall flat, and you can hear the groans across the country when "To Be Continued" flashes across the screen. The American attention span can just barely encompass 30 minutes, and heaven forfend that viewers should have to remember what happened last week! That's what those little "Last Week on...."blurbs...
...topic. A debatesurfaced questioning whether the human race wasone species or many. Some well-known scientistswere convinced that there was, in fact, no unityin the human race. The differences between people(Black, white and Indian being the maindistinctions drawn by scientists at the time) weretoo great to encompass the same species, theytheorized. A Scottish judge and "dabbler inmetaphysics," Lord Kames (1696-1782), had remarkedthat the differences between races could hardly beaccounted for by environment. He held that whites,Blacks, and Indians were inherently differentspecies. Had he not 'known' that God created onlyone single pair of the human species, he mighthave...
Shared memories are the second unavoidable thread that runs through our conversations, which always start with "Remember when..." and quickly grow like kudzu to encompass anything any of us ever did in our younger years. Inevitably, the conversation ends with raucous cackles about good times or devious tricks that seem rather far away--and rather banal...