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A. Only in the sense that every species is. Since evolution has no inherent or predictable direction, if you could play life's tape again from any early point, you would get a completely different result that wouldn't include human beings. In that sense, every species' appearance is not...
Q. So the view of evolution as a ladder with humankind on the top rung is incorrect.
A. There is as much reason for us to be here as there is for anything else. It is like Back to the Future, Part II. In the movie Doc Brown goes to a blackboard and draws a chart. The top line is history as it actually occurred. But if...
Or were the kidnapers still up to their same old tricks? -- An intrepid researcher provides a scary portrait of the evolution of Detroit gangs. -- Hugh Sidey on the noncampaign of 1992.
Cocaine sales fueled the evolution of Detroit's gangs. They began as what Taylor calls "scavengers," youths preying on the most vulnerable residents of their neighborhoods. But when the double whammy of crack and job cutbacks in the auto plants smashed into Detroit's poorest areas during the 1980s, the...