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TITLE
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DATE
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1st Darwin Festival,
1980
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Engelke, John L.
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From the big bang to
Timbuktu
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2/11/80
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Newton, David E.
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The Galapagos islands: nature's
living laboratory
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2/11/80
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Wolfe, Wroe
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An alternative to sea
floor spreading
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2/11/80
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Bartz, Stephen
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Sociobiology
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2/12/80
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Elia, Richard L.
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Darwin's impact on
religion and society
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2/12/80
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Keville, Richard P.
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The Darwins:
the genetics of genius
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2/12/80
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Bodenstein, Nancy M.
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America in the sixties
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2/13/80
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Cavallaro, Mary C.
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The scientist's world
view in the 19th Century
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2/13/80
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Gibbons, Michael F.
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The evolution of speech
and language
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2/13/80
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Miller, Mary Emily
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From Cook to Darwin
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2/13/80
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Matthews, Eileen G.
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The origin of man
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2/14/80
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Case, Susan M.
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Just how different are we
from the apes?
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2/15/80
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Margulis, Lynn
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Evolution of cells
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2/15/80
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Panel Discussion
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Nature vs. nurture
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2/15/80
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1981
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Engelke, John L.
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In the beginning…
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2/9/81
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Maloney, Joan M.
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The world of Darwin: the
1850's
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2/9/81
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Miyata, Kenneth I.
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A naturalist's year
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2/9/81
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Case, Susan M.
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Molecules and man - new
approaches to the study of life
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2/10/81
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DeMaria, Alfred
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Man and disease in
evolution
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2/10/81
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Gould, Stephen Jay
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The fact of evolution and
its current critics
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2/10/81
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Cole, E. James, Jr.
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Adaptation in wetland
plants
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2/11/81
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Elia, Richard L.
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Effects of Darwinism on
religion, 1860-1920.
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2/11/81
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Schildkraut, Ira
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The current revolution in
biology: recombinant DNA
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2/11/81
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Kirchner, J. Cameron
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Creation versus
evolution: an issue resolved?
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2/12/81
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Panel Discussion
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The moral, ethical, and
legal issues generated by the movie: "Babymakers"
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2/12/81
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Deacon, Terrence W.
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Evolution of the brain
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2/13/81
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LeClair, Edward J.
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Punishment: the evolution
of social control
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2/13/81
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Schildkraut, Deborah S.
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Comparisons of social
behavior between humans and the great apes
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2/13/81
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Weinstein, Marcia L.
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Neuropsychological
approach to math disabilities
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2/13/81
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1982
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Margulis, Lynn
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Early life
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2/1/82
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Elia, Richard L.
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The impact of Darwinism
on literature and society in the Victorian age
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2/8/82
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Martin, Geoffrey J.
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Darwin and American geographic
thought
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2/8/82
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Mayr, Ernst
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In what points do
evolutionists of today disagree with Darwin?
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2/8/82
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Johanson, Donald C.
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Lucy: 3.5 million year
old woman shakes up man's family tree
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2/9/82
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Steele, John
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Modern physics and eastern
mysticism
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2/9/82
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Flibbert, Joseph T.
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Pre-Darwinian America:
the search for an alternative synthesis
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2/10/82
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Gibbons, Michael F.
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Evolution of the Hominid
brain and the origins of speech
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2/10/82
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McLain, Minor
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The Neanderthal people in
fiction and history
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2/10/82
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Wright, Richard
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Creation and evolution: a
reasonable alternative
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2/10/82
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Markunas, Patricia V.
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Choosing your baby's
gender: some psychological and ethical implications
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2/11/82
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Mendelsohn, Jack
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Creationism versus
evolutionism
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2/11/82
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Sak, Matthew F.
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Of clocks and signals:
evolution of control molecules
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2/11/82
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Wilkes, Garrison
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Genetics and plant
breeding: yesterday, today…
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2/11/82
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Filler, Aaron
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Bipedal apes before the
dawn of man
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2/12/82
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Meagher, Edward D.
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Evolutionary ethics
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2/12/82
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1983
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Paine, Clair
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Changing and unchanging
genes
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2/14/83
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Provine, William B.
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Mechanism, design and
ethics: the unfinished Darwinian revolution
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2/14/83
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Robbins, Sarah Frazer
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The Galapagos Islands:
challenge in preservation of a fragile environment
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2/14/83
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Abell, Paul
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Our algal ancestors
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2/15/83
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Lewontin Richard C.
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Gene, organism, and
environment
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2/15/83
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Reynolds, Thomas
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Freud's psychoanalytic
theory: its roots in evolutionary biology
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2/15/83
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Glick, Thomas F.
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Evolutionism in Catholic
countries
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2/16/83
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MacIver, Kenneth A.
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Darwin and the genesis of
totalitarianism
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2/16/83
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Mendelsohn, Jack
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Science, identity,
choice, and community
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2/16/83
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Barker, Elizabeth J.
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What made Lady Brewster
faint?
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2/17/83
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DeMaria, Alfred,
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Evolving diseases: new pathogens
or old enemies?
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2/17/83
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Hall, Barry G.
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Evolution on a Petri dish
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2/17/83
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Futuyma Douglas J.
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Creationism: fantasy or
fallacy?
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2/18/83
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Grassle, J. Frederick
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The biology of
hydrothermal vents on the deep sea floor
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2/18/83
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Kohn, David
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From Beagle to Origin:
new light on Charles Darwin's intellectual voyage
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2/18/83
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1984
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DePalma, Philip A.
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Coming to grips with
Darwin
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2/13/84
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Grady, Charles Wesley
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The zygotic imperative:
overcoming the split between science and religion
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2/13/84
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Novitsky, Thomas J.
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Serendipity and the
horseshoe crab
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2/13/84
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Margulis Lynn
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Cells as microbial
communities
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2/14/84
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Saunders, Judith P.
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Darwinism misplaced
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2/14/84
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Wiersma, Geertje Else
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Modern pair bonding:
survival of the fittest?
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2/14/84
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Fisher, Helen E
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The sex contract, the
evolution of human behavior
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2/15/84
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Salzman, George
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The web of life: an anarchist
physicist's perspective
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2/15/84
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Sharp, Rosemary
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The mother-daughter
relationship in evolutionary perspective
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2/15/84
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Davis, Bernard D.
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Molecular genetics &
the foundations of evolution
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2/16/84
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Grimes, John R.
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Technological fitness and
the archaeological record
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2/16/84
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Kohn, Terry A.
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"Your affectionate
father, C. Darwin"
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2/16/84
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Barker, Elizabeth J.
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Darwin and the paradox of
Adam's dominion
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2/17/84
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Stribakos, Chris
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Darwin, Spencer and social
Darwinism
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2/17/84
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Wilson, Allan C.
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Molecular evolution, organismal evolution and the brain
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2/17/84
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1985
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Camp, Russell R.
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God did it-but how?
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2/19/85
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Kunz, Thomas H.
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What have we learned from
bats? an ecological - behavioral perspective
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2/19/85
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Gibbons, Michael F.
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Evolution of the Hominid
brain and the origins of speech
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2/20/85
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Jannasch, Holger W.
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Adaptations to life at
deep sea hydrothermal vents
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2/20/85
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Strong, Douglas Morgan
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Homosexuality: the
evolution of acceptance
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2/20/85
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Cullen, James L.
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Using micropaleontologic
data to understand climatic and oceanographic changes
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2/21/85
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Wilson, E.O.
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The evolution of insect
societies
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2/21/85
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Dexter-Dyer, Betsey
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Gaian gold deposits
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2/22/85
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Margulis, Lynn
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Cells as microbial
communities
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2/22/85
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Matthews, Clifford N.
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Cosmochemistry and the origin of life
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2/22/85
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1986
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Dinarello, Charles A.
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Interleukin-1: an immunomodulator before its time
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2/18/86
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Skehan, James W.
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Theological basis for a
Judeo-Christian position on creationism
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2/18/86
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Smith, Charles Kay
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Darwin's linguistic choices:
the scientific consequences
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2/18/86
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DeMaria, Alfred
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AIDS: the evolution of a
virus in man
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2/19/86
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Maher, Timothy J.
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Nutrition and the brain:
are you what you eat?
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2/19/86
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Green, Paul A. Jr.
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Darwin revisited: evolutionary
ideology in modern society
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2/20/86
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Killingbeck, Keith T.
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Evolved obsolescence in
plants: can it really pay to die?
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2/20/86
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Pier, Gerald B.
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Antigenic evolution in
pathogenic bacteria
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2/20/86
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Lycette, Ronald L.
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The organic world of
Henry David Thoreau
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2/21/86
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Martin, Debra, L.
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Disease in prehistory:
evolutionary trends recorded in bone
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2/21/86
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1987
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Bedard, Gerald
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Darwin, the roots of Marxist
philosophy
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2/17/87
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Gibbons, Michael F.
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Speech and brains: the
experimental evidence
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2/17/87
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Kunches, Laureen
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AIDS in the future: the
evolving epidemiologic picture
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2/17/87
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Gould, James L.
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The evolution of honey
bee language
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2/18/87
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Herrnstein, Richard J.
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Individual differences
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2/18/87
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Mendelsohn, Everett
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Charles Darwin confronts
the origin of life and flinches
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2/18/87
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Steadman, David W.
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On the shoulders of
giants (also the video from Smithsonian World)
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2/18/87
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Kent, Donald M.
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Evolutionary ecology
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2/19/87
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Schilt, F. Steve
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Finding (or losing) your
way among the continents…how motions of the earth's plates…
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2/19/87
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Wilkes, Garrison
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Gene banking for crop
plants: now and in the future
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2/19/87
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Levine, George
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From natural theology to
natural selection
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2/20/87
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Margulis, Lynn
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Evolution and the earth's
surface: Darwin and the Gaia hypothesis
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2/20/87
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Reilly, Philip R.
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The new eugenics: reflections
on the use of genetic data
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2/20/87
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1988
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Skinner, B.F.
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Selection by consequences
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2/8/88
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Cullen, James L.
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Cyclic variability in the
tropical ocean
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2/9/88
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Rich, Peter
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Evolution via redox chemistry
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2/9/88
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Beaudoin, Richard L.
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Adaptation and evolution
in a specialized environment
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2/10/88
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Deblinger, Robert
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Lyme disease: ecology of
deer, mice and ticks
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2/10/88
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Miller, Lynn
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The revolution in human
genetics: promises, promises
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2/10/88
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Beaulieu, John D.
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AIDS: overview and update
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2/11/88
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Raup, David M.
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Causes and consequences
of mass extinction
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2/11/88
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duMoulin, Gary
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Waterborne mycobacteria: an increasing threat to health
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2/12/88
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Early, Greg
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Should whales have feet?
understanding marine mammal strandings
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2/12/88
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Guild, Braydon C.
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Prospects for human
somatic gene therapy
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2/12/88
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1989
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Gajdusek, D. Carleton
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Isolation (geographic,
genetic, cultural) and human disease
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2/13/89
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Hall, Barry G.
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Do bacteria direct their
own evolution?
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2/13/89
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Kunches, Laureen
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AIDS: current studies
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2/13/89
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Buchsbaum, Robert
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Chemical defenses of
marine plants against geese and other consumers
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2/14/89
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Panel Discussion
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Strange weather and our
national security
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2/14/89
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Papagiannis, Michael D.
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Bioastronomy: the search for extraterrestrial life and intelligence
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2/15/89
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Schultes, Richard Evans
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The magico-religious
role of hallucinogens in American Indian cultures
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2/15/89
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Pilbeam, David R.
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Human evolution
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2/16/89
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Reilly, Philip R.
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DNA forensics: the
promise and the peril
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2/16/89
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Baum, William M.
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Mind and behavior in
evolutionary theory
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2/17/89
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Margulis, Lynn
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Evolution of cell
motility
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2/17/89
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Provine, William B.
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Progress in evolution and
the meaning of life
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2/17/89
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