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...like Deng and Hu themselves-during the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, returning from exile only after Mao's death. Under Deng, this group has sought to free China from the rigid constraints Maoism had imposed on industrial and technological development and on the modernization of the military. The gradual elimination of diehard Maoists from the party, government and military bureaucracies, and the conviction last November on treason charges of Mao's widow Jiang Qing, the leader of the "Gang of Four," greatly aided Deng...
...believe that human evolution supports the case for gradual change with periods of varying rates of evolution," Cronin said in the statement...
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...
...Harvard scientist and three other researchers yesterday released evidence supporting the theory of gradual evolution first expounded by Charles Darwin and T.H. Huxley...