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Biologists have also found plenty of evidence to support Darwin's other major claim: that different species share a common ancestry. Over the past 15 years, for example, paleontologists have found several fossils of whales with legs, linking modern whales to their terrestrial ancestors. Besides studying fossils, biologists can discover the genealogy of species by looking at their DNA. The fossil record points to hippos and other hoofed mammals as being the closest living relatives of whales. So does their DNA. Our own DNA contains clues to the bonds we share with the rest of life - it turns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ever Evolving Theories of Darwin | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...Folklore and Mythology major...

Author: By Lauren J. Vargas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Ways Not to Get the Job | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...laugh, or do you dump him? Communication: kind of a bid deal. And yet I couldn’t stop thinking about that final leap: leaving the humanities dating pool forever. No more square glasses. No more jokes about Simone de Beauvoir. The English major who was dating the engineer seemed cheerful. “I think in some ways dating outside the humanities fulfils the purpose of the Core Curriculum,” she told me. I started telling my friends to stop pining for awkward poets and start hanging out in the buildings we usually avoid. Which might...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dating Outside the Humanities | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...picture them naked and leave illustrated notes criticizing their physique/learn a mellifluous ocarina dirge to play whenever they speak and then when they finish, exclaim, “As if!”/follow up on all their comments by saying, “Building off what this major league code-orange intergalactic dickswamp supreme just said…”).But not all conflicts are between students—sometimes, students and TF just can’t seem to get along. If your TF is a real asshole like (Registrar Barry S. Kane), at least take solace...

Author: By Daniel K Bilotti and Vincent M Chiappini, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Please, Write Your Own Damn Column | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...knew nothing about the world, I knew I needed to learn stuff, and I needed time. So I thought, “Wow—a university, what a great thing to do, what a great opportunity.” So I came here and I was a music major, but my great passion was anthropology.THC: Did you ever consider not going into music full time? Maybe going into anthropology?YYM: Absolutely. I always thought that I should do something other than music, because I always did music, and it was part of my life. I have a good friend...

Author: By Benjamin C. Burns, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Yo-Yo Ma Goes Beyond the Music | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

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