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...book, At Home in the Universe (Oxford University Press; $25), theoretical biologist Stuart Kauffman of the Santa Fe Institute argues that underlying the creative commotion during the Cambrian are laws that we have only dimly glimpsed - laws that govern not just biological evolution but also the evolution of physical, chemical and technological systems. The fanciful animals that first appeared on nature's sketchpad remind Kauffman of early bicycles, with their odd-size wheels and strangely angled handlebars. "Soon after a major innovation," he writes, "discovery of profoundly different variations is easy. Later innovation is limited to modest improvements on increasingly...
Biological evolution, says Kauffman, is just one example of a self-organizing system that teeter-totters on the knife edge between order and chaos, "a grand compromise between structure and surprise." Too much order makes change impossible; too much chaos and there can be no continuity. But since balancing acts are necessarily precarious, even the most adroit tightrope walkers sometimes make one move too many. Mass extinctions, chaos theory suggests, do not require comets or volcanoes to trigger them. They arise naturally from the intrinsic instability of the evolving system, and superior fitness provides no safety...
Seves: Har--Milhollin 11; Cor--Kauffman...
Harvard (2-5, 0-1 Ivy) dominated every aspect of the game except goals, blasting 26 total shots and 17 on net, while Cornell amassed 17 and 13, respectively. But Big Red goaltender Molly Kauffman stopped all balls sent her way, while Harvard cageminder Jessica Milhollin let two pass...
Penn, meanwhile, started the season 6-1-1 but finished 9-5-1. Of course, four of those losses were to Top 20 teams. The Quakers lost three-time first-team All-Ivy midfielder Amy Pine, along with fellow first-teamer Mandy Kauffman. Leading the returnees will be forward Kara Philbin and back Sue Quinn...