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119 pages of results. 881. Darwinian Diary, part I (Book reviews) [Journals] [SIS Review]
... happier, we would certainly still be living in caves. Nevertheless, as knowledge increases, it should be possible to move towards a more integrated scheme. Other areas which might develop interestingly are the relationship between embryonic development and evolution, and the effects of possible catastrophic changes in the environment. The status of catastrophism in evolutionary theory is a strange one: it is scarcely mentioned, possibly because it was once the preserve of the creationists. Mark Ridley writes in Darwin up to Date, "In order to make a comprehensive theory, the evolutionist also needs the principle of uniformitarianism. This is the idea that if we can see a process working for a short period of time ...
882. Crazy Heroes of Dark Times [Books] [de Grazia books]
... . Homer "does not talk a great deal about tribes and groups and clans and sects and varieties of idealistic associations, whether pacific or belligerent. What Homer does is to confine himself to the immediate family of the warrior in question."[24] Only a short paternal link is stressed, along with guest-friends. This is exceedingly strange. It is not at all like "primitive peoples" whose lives are bound into communities of blood served by totems. Nor like a bureaucratic society. But by the "dawn of history," in the next century, we find definite blood lines as the basis of organization of the Greek polis. Apparently, though missing in ...
883. He Who Shines by Day [Books] [de Grazia books]
... relations. But now, in the Love Affair, the bed is cold. Aphrodite's children come from others, including especially Ares. Hephaestus may be the indignant husband, but he is impotent in sexual affairs and it is perhaps because of this empty show of dignity that the gods Apollo and Hermes laugh. Hephaestus' advances upon Athena were strangely fruitful, says another account. As he gazed at Athena, he ejaculated and his seed fell upon Gaia, "the Earth," from whom Erichthonios (Auriga) was born. Athena succored the infant when Gaia rejected him. He was half-man and half-serpent; later on he became King of Athens and instituted her worship [23 ...
884. The SIS Tenth Anniversary Tour of Egypt - Report [Journals] [SIS Review]
... formers' passengers with unusual high (shaved?) foreheads and neat "Beatle Haircuts" at the rear; Sherden mercenaries with their familiar horned helmets and round shields; and the victims of Ramesses' victory floating, lifeless, in the waters of the Orontes flowing past the fortified city of Kadesh. Returning, via the Osireion - a strange underground cenotaph built for Osiris some unknown time before the surrounding 19th-Dynasty structures - our group descended the steps of Seti's temple into the welcome shade of its columned hallways, to he led by Mostafa finally back to the entrance colonnade from where our tour had begun several hours earlier. After a brief rest we drove south, along the river ...
885. The Birth and Death of Memory [Books] [de Grazia books]
... in successive kinds of turbulence, in all the various destructive forms of earth, air, fire, and water, the primordial elements. Animals, both tame and wild, crowd in upon people, terrified, unaggressive, unhungry. Eardrums are blown in or sucked out by abrupt pressure changes. Some are struck blind, others gassed. Strange objects and lifeforms drop from the sky. The sky reels. The waters gyrate madly and rush to and fro." The vista is one of unmitigated disaster. There is nowhere to go. The survivors regroup after each incident. They are partially paralyzed with fear and despair, partly striving for survival and control. "What god ...
886. The Transfiguration of Trauma [Books] [de Grazia books]
... be the fountainhead of myth. Sexuality can also be a cloak of disaster. It stands here with all of its traditional and well-developed imagery in place of the true story. There is reason for its use. Catastrophe can be buried well beneath sexual imagery; there are enough intimations of fright, noise, violence, love, hate, strangeness, explosiveness, conflict and damage in the "primal scene," the "birth trauma," the lust to mate, and the competition for mates to inspire the most profound analogies. Still, they are partial analogies, not "the whole real thing." And when the direction of causation is reversed, there is additional ...
887. Abbreviations, Glossary and Bibliography [Books] [de Grazia books]
... J. Coll. Int. Sci. 38, no. 1 (Jan.), pp. 12-19 Cooper, Leon N. (1968), An Introduction to the Meaning and Structure of Physics (Harper & Row: New York) Corliss, William R. (1975), "Moon Lore and Eclipse Superstitions" in Strange Universe (Sourcebook Proj.: Glen Arm, MD) Cowley, Ann P., et al. (1975), "TT Arietis: An evolved, very short period binary," Ap. J. 195 (15 Jan.), pp. 413-21 -- (1977), "The Flickering White Dwarf CD-42 ...
888. Return to the Tippe Top [Journals] [SIS Review]
... . Just how does one tilt a planet over? Actually, scientists of a conventional disposition are also facing the same problem in relation to the latest finds about Uranus. Everyone is surprised' say the surprised astrophysicists, by the peculiar' and strong' winds on Uranus (over 700 kilometres per hour at 60 S), and the strange' excess dust in the region of the rings which should have spiralled in to the planet in only a few hundred years' due to the huge' hydrogen cloud around the planet. There is Miranda with her most trocious geology [18], probably caused by the satellite breaking up and then re-forming time and time again, avers ...
889. Astronomical Theory and Historical Data [Books] [de Grazia books]
... solar system does not exist: if this evidence existed, the opponents of Velikovsky could simply point to it and the debate would be closed. But, since this evidence does not exist, the supporters of the stability of the solar system have been forced to carry the battle into the field of history itself. They are engaged in the strange manoeuvre of denying the historicity of the solar system by denying the value of historical science. This is clearly indicated by the fact that, in the campaign against Velikovsky of fourteen years ago, at the meeting of the American Philosophical Society which was intended to dispose of the issue forever, the performer was the astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who ...
890. The Cautious Revolutionary [Journals] [SIS Review]
... could contribute to a punctuational mode of evolution. The evidence of mass extinctions suggests to him, reasonably, that significant and widespread environmental changes must have occurred on several occasions. Such changes could have had terrestrial or extraterrestrial causes (or both), but the man who has helped to revolutionise evolutionary theory over the past ten years has been strangely cautious about discussing the possibility that extraterrestrial factors could have been involved. Of course, revolutionaries in one field can be quite conservative in another: Martin Luther, for instance, took an extremely antagonistic line towards the peasants' revolt. So, to a point, it was with Gould: he was prepared to stick his neck out ...
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