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The public fear of genetics is due to a misunderstanding of the differences between monogenic and polygenic traits resulting in an exaggeration of the current powers of genetics, Davis says. Monogenic traits are determined by only one gene, while polygenic traits may be determined by several hundred thousand genes. The...
Rocha treats these conflicts between elites and masses in two other films about primitive religion in the impoverished northeast of Brazil, Black God. White Devil (1964) and Antonio das Mortes (1969) where the people are actually killed off during the fighting between the elite revolutionary cangaceiros and the beatos, the...
Hoichi the Earless, the third film, is the longest, the most complex and the most successful of the four. The film is in two parts. In the first we hear the recitation of a ballad relating a famous battle between two Japanese dynasties, while on screen Kobayashi fades back and...
"Honor to human courage," declared Pope Paul in a litany of praise. "Honor to the synthesis of the scientific and organizational activity of man. Honor to man-king of the earth and now prince of the heavens!" But pity the prince's domain. There was the astronaut with his...
Though no one as yet understands all the workings of the pituitary, Dr. Choh Hao Li, a Chinese-born biochemist and endocrinologist at the University of California, has come closer than anyone to unlocking its secrets. Li and his colleagues have isolated and purified eight of the pituitary's...