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...contrast, Darwin argued that evolution works not through the fire of effort but through cold, impartial selection. By Darwinist thinking, giraffes got their long necks over millennia because genes for long necks had, very slowly, gained advantage. Darwin, who was 84 years younger than Lamarck, was the better scientist, and he won the day. Lamarckian evolution came to be seen as a scientific blunder. Yet epigenetics is now forcing scientists to re-evaluate Lamarck's ideas. (See TIME's video on Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln...
...often forgotten presence of Harvard in this wild and crazy chapter of American history is really something. According to a review in the San Francisco Chronicle, Lattin’s book indicates that then-University President Nathan M. Pusey's '28 decision to fire Alpert and Leary essentially mandated that San Francisco (where the pair headed after leaving dainty old Cambridge) would be the holy seat of counterculture...
...definitely had to buckle down and make sure we stayed composed while also bringing our intensity,” she said. “It’s great to have a close game, but we definitely have to be able to bring out our own fire...
...materialize spontaneously in Tehran and elsewhere in the country, much to the government's chagrin. They did not receive nourishment from the government, just blows - or worse. At least eight people were killed as a result of the confrontations on that day. Some oppositionists say the police opened fire on protesters - though the government denies that its forces were armed. Grainy video footage on YouTube and elsewhere apparently shows protesters crushed under the wheels of police vehicles. Other deaths were reportedly caused by falls from bridges or as a result of clashes with men who had been goaded into violence...
Fourth-seeded Caputo found himself thrown into the fire early with back-to-back Big Ten opponents, but the experienced grappler found his footing. He dispatched Michigan State’s Currant Jacobs with a 5-1 decision before ousting Iowa’s Grant Gambrall...