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March 2, 2005
Carl Zimmer on evolution
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
Carl Zimmer, whose blog The Loom beat out the New York Times and others in the online category of last year's Science Journalism Awards from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, offers up a fascinating series on evolution.
The first of the series examines the evolution of the eye in various animals, exploring how some may have borrowed or even 'stolen' the genes that later allowed them to see, as well as why some animals have adapted to their environments by effectively 'losing' their eyesight.
And the second looks at the evolution of language through the ideas of leading language experts such as Steven Pinker, Ray Jackendoff, Noam Chomsky, Tecumseh Fitch, Ray Jackendoff, and Marc Hauser: Building Gab - Part I; Part II.
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1. sikhlink on April 6, 2005 1:59 AM writes...
The word "Guru" is a Sanskrit word meaning teacher, honoured person, religious person or saint. Sikhism though has a very specific definition of the word Guru. It means the descent of divine guidance to mankind provided through ten Enlightened Masters. This honour of being called a Sikh Guru applies only to the ten Gurus who founded the religion starting with Guru Nanak in 1469 and ending with Guru Gobind Singh in 1708; thereafter it refers to the Sikh Holy Scriptures the Guru Granth Sahib. The divine spirit was passed from one Guru to the next as "The light of a lamp which lights another does not abate. Similarly a spiritual leader and his disciple become equal, Nanak says the truth."
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