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...much information as he could about life. He collected it while voyaging on the Beagle, by sitting in front of a microscope back in England and by writing to a global network of correspondents. Today, however, biologists can feast on a far bigger banquet of data. The fossil record was scanty in Darwin's day, but now it has pushed the evidence of life on Earth back to at least 3.4 billion years ago. And while Darwin recognized that variation and heredity were the twin engines that made evolution possible, he didn't know what made them possible. It would...
...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 out, for instance, that we are closer kin to mushrooms than to sunflowers...
...RECORD LAST WEEK: 3-5-0 (To date...
...Natural History—Purcell’s “Egg and Nest” and Amanda Means’ “Looking at Leaves”—demonstrate the way that artists can reveal the aesthetics of the natural world, rather than simply record scientific data about it.“Each of the photography exhibitions that we have done has been designed to raise different questions about the way we see the world and to attract new audiences,” says Elisabeth Werby, the executive director of HMNH. “They...
...Ain’t no money for no shoes or purses here,” Cam’ron raps about his meager paycheck. This presumably leaves little to no money for video production—it’s possible that the entire thing was recorded on a Handycam. A raucous piano riff kicks off a dull workday, narrated through the eyes of Cam’ron’s girlfriend with an almost Biz Markie-esque realism. The flashy whips and mansions have been traded for a mid-size sedan and cubicle, and with mounting bills...