2001 Jan DISCOVER Evolutionary Computing EVOLUTION OF ADOPTION Year in Science
- Title: Discover
- Date: January, 2001
- Pagination: 100pp plus covers
- Condition: good; covers a bit rumpled from storage and mailing; address label on front cover; interior clean and complete otherwise
[OCR is approximate, as always]
Cover Story 49 THE YEAR IN SCIENCE We cracked the genetic code and discovered Earth is more than a quintillion tons lighter than we thought. We scoped out ancient party towns under the Mediterranean, unearthed the earliest known phonetic alphabet, and beheld 10-foot-long 250-year-old worms. Meteorite-seeking dune buggies roved Antarctica. The north pole may have melted. A species of monkey was eaten into extinction. Diabetes may have met its match. And bananas turned out to be our kissing cousins. Trust us—it was a really cool year. Discover what you've missed. Discover NGTON PATHOLOGY DEPARTMFNT ROGER W WINSTEAD 50 THE YEAR OF THE GENOME Now that we have a set of keys to the body, do we trust anyone to drive? BY MATT RIDLEY Features 70 ROCKET SCIENCE AND ART RESTORATION How NASA physicists use atomic oxygen— reactive gas found in the outer reaches of the atmosphere-to rescue damaged paintings that would otherwise gather dust in vaults. BY KRISTIN OHLSON 74 MACHINES THAT THINK Computers can now mimic evolution by breeding software that can design robots, improvise jazz, manage vast warehouse inventories, and tackle other creative tasks more efficiently than humans. Are these digital powerhouses too smart for our own good? BY BRAD LEMLEY 80 THE ADOPTION PARADOX Birds do it, fish do it, even educated New Yorkers do it, but the reason for raising someone else's offspring eluded Darwin himself. Why waste your time caring for someone else's genes? BY EVAN EISENBERG
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