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But changing his suit jacket didn't cut it and now Gore plans to pay "Beauty Myth" author Naomi Wolf $15,000 each month to make the evolution from the gentle cub to unruly grizzly complete. The absurdity of her salary aside, we should cringe that Gore needs to relearn...
Matt Ridley is the author of The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature. His newest book, Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, is due out in February
But knowing and doing are two very different things, as hundreds of thousands of lapsed weight watchers have learned to their despair. The trouble, according to one theory, is that our best intentions about weight control go up against several million years of human evolution. Our hunter-gatherer ancestors literally...
So it seems likely that for a while at least we'll keep getting fatter. We can't undo evolution, and we haven't found a way to fool Mother Nature--yet. But before the 21st century is half over, with the body's fat-centric metabolism laid bare and...
Niles Eldredge is a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History. His book The Triumph of Evolution is due out early next year