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...fully attentive, he checks his location, pinpointed by a glowing dot moving along a map displayed on a dashboard screen, then exits the freeway and reads instructions on an adjoining screen. Finally, as he nears his destination, he is guided further by a computer voice that intones, "Turn left on Cherry Street...
...think the committee ever felt that itwould be deeply offended if none of these modelswere selected," said Ford Professor of the SocialSciences David Pilbeam, a committee member, "It'snot a detailed road map. You have a model and aperson, and as you reduce the list ofpossibilities, maybe you change the model...
Meanwhile, Professors of Astronomy Margaret J.Geller and John P. Huchra are measuring thespectra and velocity of distant galaxies at theWhipple Observatory. The pair plans to create athree-dimensional map of galaxy distributionacross the universe. Their unexpected resultsindicate that the universe is made up of giantbubble-like voids, whose boundaries are wheregalaxies reside...
Despite the difficulties, the scientists made some myth-shattering discoveries. One of them jumps right off the book's cover: a color map of world genetic variation has Africa on one end of the spectrum and Australia on the other. Because Australia's aborigines and sub-Saharan Africans share such superficial traits as skin color and body shape, they were widely assumed to be closely related. But their genes tell a different story. Of all humans, Australians are most distant from the Africans and most closely resemble their neighbors, the southeast Asians. What the eye sees as racial differences -- between...
...same map, in combination with the fossil record, confirms that Africa was the birthplace of humanity and thus the starting point of the original human migrations. Those findings, plus the great genetic distance between present-day Africans and non-Africans, indicate that the split from the African branch is the oldest on the human family tree...