Word: fossilize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because of the scarcity of fossil records to prove gradual evolutionary change, many scientists have become convinced that evolution instead occurs in brief spurts, followed by long periods of inactivity...
...Cronin, in collaboration with Noel Boaz, professor of anthropology at New York University. Christopher B. Stringer, professor of paleontology at the British Museum, and Yoel Rak, professor of anatoms and anthropology at Tel Aviv University, has contended that, at least for human evolution, fossil records do in fact indicate gradual evolution...
Solar energy, however, will not be able to compete economically with fossil fuels, although existing tax credits and subsidies encourage homeowners to use some technologies, the report's author. Michael Shapiro, a former associate professor and the current chief of the Regulation Impacts Branch of the Environmental Protection Agency, says...
...life in Biology, a text published by Silver Burdett, was cut from 1,373 words to 45. Discus sion of the origins of life went from 2,023 words to 322. Text devoted to Darwin's view of evolution shrank from 2,750 words to 296. Sections on fossil formation and geologic eras were deleted entirely...
...Einstein once wrote. Says Astrophysicist Robert Jastrow: "Astronomers have proven that the creation of the universe is the result of forces beyond the reach of scientific inquiry, but the rest of the story, leading from the creation to man, is explained very well by the scientific evidence in the fossil record...