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Through Oct. 8. "The Art of the Fan: China, Korea, Japan." Traces the evolution of the fan in East Asia, from the circular "lollipop" fan to the better-known folding fan that was produced throughout East Asia from the thirteenth century onward.
Some evolution has taken place in this crippled genre. Take last month's "Losing Isaiah." Hmm, you think, could be about death, kidnapping or even a slam-bang lost-in-the-big-city caper. But no, "Losing Isaiah" draws its plot from the topical problem of surrogate motherhood. How did...
Scientists have long considered the highly variable organ of vision--from the kaleidoscopic eyes of insects to the gleaming eyes of cats--to be one of the greatest puzzles among all the structures invented by evolution. Did biology draw up a blueprint for eyes many times? Or are all eyes...
The buzz Gehring created is unlikely to simmer down anytime soon. For master control genes like eyeless, which span the vertebrate and invertebrate worlds, are keys to millions of years of evolution, and scientists are already racing to find more of these revealing snippets of DNA.
For some cosmologists to admit the need to re-examine ideas upon which they have constructed their theories in the light of new information is indeed refreshing [Science, March 6]. Fortunately, these scientists appear to lack the disturbing habit, found so often in evolution-based sciences, of ignoring or explaining...