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...than 50 years, he and a team of 13 researchers in four countries have come to a stunning conclusion. By the middle of this century, fishermen will have almost nothing left to catch. "None of us regular working folk are going to be able to afford seafood," says Stephen Palumbi, a Stanford University marine biologist and co-author of the study published in Science. "It's going to be too rare and too expensive...
...endangered. That's twice as many as were taken in 2000, more than even the number hauled in by Norway, which simply ignores the moratorium. Next year Japan plans to bag 50 humpbacks, the endangered giants famous for their spectacular breaches and eerie subaqueous songs. Stanford University cetologist Stephen Palumbi says their addition to the scientific catch will confound attempts to monitor poaching through the dna testing of meat, a method that has proved remarkably effective in recent years...
...because the university has already allowed design to gain legitimacy in a University-sponsored debate. In November of 2001, the design proponent Jonathan Wells (a devotee of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon) managed to secure a debate at the Kennedy School of Government with Harvard Professor of Biology Stephen Palumbi. The actual debate was uneventful, with both men agreeing that evolutionary biology had many outstanding questions. Nevertheless, design proponents later cited the exchange as a crushing victory. It lent respectability to an idea that no Harvard biology professor could endorse...
...Understanding what’s going on within someone with HIV is impossible without recognizing the evolutionary process,” Palumbi said. “Evolution allows us to explain this phenomenon so that middle school and high school students can understand...
...both Wells and Palumbi reached virtually the same conclusion—that teachers should offer a critical approach to Darwinian theory...