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 DISCOVER
Are We Still Evolving?
March 2009
Inside:
150 YEARS OF EVOLUTION
DISCOVER Interview: Are We Still Evolving? 50
Sean Carroll 40
Yes indeed, and faster than
With the modern tools of ever, according to a new analy-
genetics, the molecular biol- sis of the human genome.
ogist has proved Darwinism By Kathleen McAuliffe
(and debunked its doubters) What will come after
one bit of DNA at a time. Homo sapiens?
By Pamela Weintraub By Jane Bosveld
The Great Cosmic
Census
The Sloan Digital Sky
Survey has mapped 350
million celestial objects—
and delivered a startling
new view of the universe.
By Michael Lemonick
Brain Trust
Where is consciousness?
Why is memory so fallible?
In a far-ranging conversation,
four top brain scientists con-
sider mysteries and myths of
the human mind.
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Ascent of Darwin 34
The principle of natural selection provides a powerful way of thinking, not only about biology but about love, politics, even the cosmos.
By Karen Wright
Galapagos Next 46
New research in exotic locales, from Pacific Ocean trenches
to hospital emergency rooms, is deepening our understanding of how evolution works.
By Linda Marsa
Contributors 4
Letters 5
Data 6
Fluorescent corals, sugar in the Milky Way, chemically controlled micromachines, stretchable circuits, educated embryos, laser encryption, dam facts, and more.
Five Questions for Maggie Turnbull
The astrobiologist ponders the likelihood of tracking down E.T. and reveals her dream research project.
By Amy Barth
Hot Science
Watchmen on film, and essential books and TV of the month
Peter Bagge's History of Science
Robert Brown bets on the motion of molecules.
Think Tech
Gizmos to enhance your media viewing, and what $16,000 will get you in a flat-screen TV. By Stephen Cass
Future Tech
Supersize LEDs. By Stephen Cass
The Brain
How our behavioral immune system may keep us healthy.
By Carl Zimmer
Field Notes
A visit with the International Prototype Kilogram, living near Paris in guarded seclusion. By Dava Sobel
Vital Signs
Was it only anxiety, or something much more serious?
By Tony Dajer
Mind Games
A rock-gathering mission with confounding constraints.
By Scott Kim
20 Things You Didn't Know About Time
By LeeAundra
Temescu
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