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1." Others have argued that narratives are unscientific--Misia Landau made this point about paleoanthropology some years ago, noting how stories about human origins parallel the structure of many creation myths (Narratives of Human Evolution, 1991)."

Source:  Bowler, Peter J. "Life Issues: Its Origin, Rarity and Sometimes Artful Arrangement" American Scientist 88.2 Mar. 1 2000: 169

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2."... Jefferson, Iowa David Foster errs when he attempts to refute the atheist's argument for evolution as the origin of man by citing the odds against evolution, and then positing supernatural creation as the only logical alternative."

Source:  . "Letters" Saturday Evening Post 272.2 Mar. 1 2000: 26

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3." Origin and evolution of animal life cycles."

Source:  MINER, BENJAMIN G.,SANFORD, ERIC,STRATHMANN, RICHARD R.,PERNET, BRUNO,EMLET, RICHARD B. "Functional and Evolutionary Implications of Opposed Bands, Big Mouths, and Extensive Oral Ciliation in Larval Opheliids and Echiurids" Biological Bulletin 197.1 Aug. 1 1999: 14

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4." Comparisons to three other recent books on developmental evolution are inevitable: Raff's Shape of Life (1996), Gerhart and Kirschner's Cells, Embryos, and Evolution (1997), and Arthur's The Origin of Animal Body Plans (1997)."

Source:  WRAY, GREGORY A. "Evolutionary Developmental Biology Revisited" BioScience 50.8 Aug. 1 2000: 713

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5." Starling, "elegance itself," becomes Charlotte's momentary mentor, but one teaching remains with her as the novel unfolds: His distinction between the origin of the species, or evolution, and the origin of life itself,..."

Source:  . "Tom Wolfe's latest; America's shrewdest satirist on the way college kids live and love today" Washington Times Nov. 28 2004: 08

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6." His latest book, with Donald Goldsmith, is Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution (W.W. Norton, 2004), the companion book to the PBS NOVA miniseries Origins. "

Source:  Tyson, Neil deGrasse. "The importance of being constant: the fundamental things apply ... as time goes by" Natural History 113.9 Nov. 1 2004: 18-22

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7." Pharmaceutical companies, the agriculture industry and epidemiologists base their findings on Darwinian evolution and not intelligent design theory or any other form of "creation science" because evolution is the best explainer of nature."

Source:  Johnson, Norman A. "Design Flaw" American Scientist 88.3 May 1 2000: 274

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8." It is not the educationists--certainly not the educationists alone--who pack the textbook hearings demanding to get evolution out of the curriculum and get equal time for creation "science," or who go through the literature books and the school library shelves looking for witches or, depending on..."

Source:  SCHRAG, PETER. "The Education of Diane Ravitch" Nation 271.9 Oct. 2 2000: 31

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9." For those interested in the evolution of Florentine philosophy during the quattrocento and who have read George Holmes's The Florentine Enlightenment (1969) and Arthur Field's Origins of the Platonic Academy in Florence (1988) and still remain..."

Source:  MACK, CHARLES R. "The Writings and Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci: Order and Chaosin Early Modern Thought" Renaissance Quarterly 53.2 June 22 2000: 571

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10." Evolution, he says, is "awful science" and "naturalistic mythology." In an August 1999 debate, he said, "Evolution is not just a scientific theory, but a culturally dominant and legally protected creation..."

Source:  Benen, Steve. "Science Test" Church & State 53.7 July 1 2000: 8

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11." The engineering of the lines, laying bare the geological layers of the earth, served to confirm Lyell's theory of the evolution of the planet, which challenged the Biblical idea of creation."

Source:  RICHARDS, JEFFREY. "Railways and the Victorian Imagination" Business History 42.3 July 1 2000: 165

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12." Her work relates directly to fundamental questions about the evolution of the universe, the nature of neutron stars and supernovae, the origins of heavy elements and the thermodynamic nature of nuclear matter."

Source:  . "Chemist Sherry Yennello Wins 2000 Young Investigator Award" American Scientist 88.5 Sept. 1 2000: 470

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13." This is a well-researched and thorough piece of work encouraging the reader to empathize with the subject and not only chart the development of Shariati's political views but to understand the intellectual origins and evolution of those views."

Source:  ANSARI, A.M. "An Islamic Utopian: A Political Biography of AliShari`ati" Middle Eastern Studies 36.3 July 1 2000: 261

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14." This is a well-researched and thorough piece of work encouraging the reader to empathize with the subject and not only chart the development of Shariati's political views but to understand the intellectual origins and evolution of those views."

Source:  ANSARI, A.M. "Iranian Intellectuals in the 20th Century" Middle Eastern Studies 36.3 July 1 2000: 261

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15."... decades-old union exemption from antitrust laws, I first asked Susan Schwochau to prepare a review article tracing the origins and evolution of the exemption through the legislative process and the courts."

Source:  BENNETT, JAMES T. "Labor Unions and Antitrust" Journal of Labor Research 21.4 Sept. 22 2000: 533

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16."... such factors in determining the biological evolution of linguistic compet ence (p. 132). `The origins of complex language' is somwhat technical in places, yet makes for a refreshing read."

Source:  KNIGHT, CHRIS. "The origins of complex language: an inquiry into the evolutionarybeginnings of sentences, syllables, and truth. xii" Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 6.2 June 1 2000: 339

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17." I am convinced that it does and that we need a science of memetics to understand human origins and culture just as much as we have needed the theory of evolution in biology."

Source:  . "Do Memes Make Sense?" Free Inquiry 20.3 June 22 2000: 42

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18." The American Heritage Dictionary defines it as "the study and description of organisms and natural objects, especially their origins, evolution, and interrelationships." A Nature Program..."

Source:  BEN-ARI, ELIA T. "Speaking for Nature" BioScience 50.7 July 1 2000: 556

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19." Shamanic healing, human evolution, and the origin of religion."

Source:  McClenon, James. "Content Analysis of an Anomalous Memorate Collection: Testing Hypotheses Regarding Universal Features" Sociology of Religion 61.2 June 22 2000: 155

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20."... 8) reformulation and reconceptualization; 9) community-building as the creation of public interests, common goods, and active citizens. (2) These three rounds are consistent with Yankelovich's (1991) three-stage model of the evolution of public judgment."

Source:  Weeks, Edward C. "The Practice of Deliberative Democracy: Results from Four Large-Scale Trials" Public Administration Review 60.4 July 1 2000: 360

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21." The chapters on New York and Rotterdam are wide-ranging and authoritative, and in both cases trace the evolution of these very different city-ports from their origins to the present day."

Source:  HOYLE, BRIAN. "City and Port: Urban Planning as a Cultural Venture in London,Barcelona, New York and Rotterdam" Urban Studies 37.4 Apr. 1 2000: 823

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22."... in American Social Science, 1890-1915," in his Race, Culture, and Evolution: Essays in the History of Anthropology (New York: Free Press, 1968); and Nicholas Hudson, "From `Nation' to `Race': The Origin of Racial Classification in..."

Source:  Hattam, Victoria. "History, Agency, and Political Change" Polity 32.3 Mar. 22 2000: 333

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23." Bailey begins with a new introduction that discusses the changing nature of social history since its modern creation in the 1960s, including the evolution of cultural studies, critical feminism, deconstructionism, post-colonialism, and post modernism, all of which have influenced his scholarship."

Source:  McCrone, Kathleen E. "Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City" Canadian Journal of History 35.1 Apr. 1 2000: 166

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24." With its account of the interdependence of all beings, science weaves a narrative of creation and evolution that is as dramatic as Genesis."

Source:  Barglow, Raymond. "Buddhists Armed with Apples" Tikkun 15.3 May 1 2000: 41

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25." In illuminating perspectives topical chapters trace the origin, biologic basis, and evolution of sexuality, its relationship to other fundamental human emotions, and its historical, cultural, and religious expressions."

Source:  . "Sexual Accusations and Social Turmoil: What Can Be Done" Adolescence 35.137 Mar. 22 2000: 230

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