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...Splash, Actress Daryl Hannah, 23, made waves by playing a girl who was part human, part fish. For her next role, Hannah has moved up a few rungs on the evolutionary ladder. In The Clan of the Cave Bear, now filming in northwestern Canada, Hannah portrays a young Cro-Magnon girl adopted by a tribe of less developed Neanderthals. Based on Jean Auel's bestselling novel, the movie, due next summer, will strive for authenticity, a fact that Hannah finds chilling. "They drop us in the middle of a glacier, and we're dressed in skins." Hannah...
Molecular biology, in part, is rooted in the science of genetics. Ever since Cro-Magnon man, parents have probably wondered why their children resemble them. But not until an obscure Austrian monk named Gregor Mendel began planting peas in his monastery's garden in the mid-19th century were the universal laws of heredity worked out. By tallying up the variations in the offspring peas, Mendel determined that traits are passed from generation to generation with mathematical precision in small, separate packets, which became known as genes (from the Greek word for race...
...play-by-the-rules kiss-ass in the office. Nicole Garcia's Janine represents that curious person you know well but who is either brilliant and wily or a complete and utter moron--and you can't decide which it is. Gerard Depardieu, oddly enough, looks more like Cro-Magnon Man in a three-piece suit than he does in his usual dirty t-shirt. But his primitive good looks help in his appearing appropriately uncomfortable in his high-powered, corporate surroundings...
Some plays are the comic books of the theater. All of their characters are caricatures. Their situations have the labeled banality of canned clichés. The dialogue is Cro-Magnon English. In scene after scene the ludicrous and the dreadful intersect at some flash point where the playgoer's ribs collapse in implausible laughter...
...reporter turning up at one of her lectures at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History noted that the speaker somehow managed to discuss museums, stones, stuffed birds, cave paintings, Cro-Magnon man, children, parents, grandparents, dinosaurs, whales, the possibility of life in outer space, education, the youth revolution of the 1960s, the oneness of the human species, pollution, evolution, growing up in New Guinea, relations between the sexes, communes and the fragmentation of communities...