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Why are such social sanctions necessary? Scholars who specialize in human nature--evolutionary psychologists--have an answer: our species is not monogamous by nature. Neither sex is designed for a lifetime of monogamous devotion, especially men; during human evolution, males, unlike females, could greatly multiply their progeny by having multiple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONVENTION '96: THE FALSE POLITICS OF VALUES | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

"The central nervous system does not regenerate the way the peripheral system does," Reeve says. "Someone chops off your arm, and it can be reattached. You might even pitch a baseball someday. But evolution did not do the same thing for the central nervous system. It was explained to me...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW HOPES, NEW DREAMS | 8/26/1996 | See Source »

RAY WALSTON, SEVENTYISH, BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA; Actor For a generation of Americans, Martians weren't little green men--they looked like Walston, who starred with the late Bill Bixby in the 1963-66 TV series My Favorite Martian. A Broadway veteran (he won a Tony for playing the Devil in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Aug. 19, 1996 | 8/19/1996 | See Source »

"And thus we must oil the machine. Oil the machine and expedite the expulsion of cogs. With the evolution of the wheel, the cog is castaway. There is no choice in order to insure a brighter future but to oil the machine. Oil the machine and clear away the cogs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Great Welfare Debate | 8/9/1996 | See Source »

Perhaps if MTV had sunk its teeth into things and put the whole film through the quick-cut music-video grinder, at least they could be seen to stand by their principles. Otherwise, "Joe's Apartment" fails, despite however millions of years its stars have survived. Wait for stars even...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, | Title: MTV Flick Grows Old Quick | 7/30/1996 | See Source »

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