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She has probed the evolution and hidden purposes of biological phenomena that most people take for granted: menstruation, morning sickness and allergic reactions. Profet's ideas about menstruation fit into a general theory that all these natural processes protect against infection and disease. Morning sickness, she believes, prevents pregnant women...
The debate Profet has started may not be easily resolved. If nothing else, though, she has provided a fresh way of looking at an old mystery. It's not enough, she says, to know what happens during menstruation. The more intriguing questions: Why does it happen, and how did it...
The Evolution of Consciousness. Aresearch lecture for non-specialists with KerekDenton, emeritus research professor ofexperimental phsyiology and medicine, Universityof Melbourne. Science Center B, 8 p.m. Paneldiscussion follows.
The answer is to provide a gearlike association, the way sports shoes have done by gluing on wildly colored pieces of leather and rubber, supposedly of different density and (nifty gear wording here) torsional rigidity, so the shoe looks like a machine. Prince, the firm that in 1976 invented the...
The Passacaglia revealed another, extremely promising and satisfying step in the continuing evolution of Perlman's playing. From the energetic dynamo of the seventies to the sometimes complacent and always prolific artist of the eighties has risen a mature, cerebral virtuoso who has proved his ranking next to Isaac Stern...