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Omni October 1991 |
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ANNIVERSARY BONUS: FUTURE MAN AND THE CAN COMPUTERS COME TO LIFE? HUNTING DINOSAURS JEAN M. AUEL ON EARLY MAN THE GAIA PRINCIPLE: NEANDERTHALS REDISCOVERED |
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Cover Art: Nature carved in stone distinct records of time's vast changes. Modern man, however, has left more ambiguous traces,suggests the illustration by Randy Nelsen (Earthbooks). He found his own uses for stone, first for tools and shelter, then for art. Man still evolves, slowly and subtly. |
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Contents / Articles
First Word Archaeological evidence indicates that modern humans and Neanderthals lived side by side for thousands of years. The author wonders whether we will someday share the earth with a superior type of Homo sapiens. by Jean M. Auel Omnibus The Who's Who of contributing authors Forum Inherit the ignorance: Sixty-six years after the Scopes monkey trial, some schools still teach creationism as a science. Why does evolution frighten some people? by Keith Ferrell Communications Readers' Writes Political Science The whole planet could be bombed back to the Stone Age if the United States doesn't keep a closer eye on its plutonium. by Tom Dworetzky Digs Found (probably): The elusive missing evolutionary link between man and ape. by Delta Willis Tools Being God is harder thank it looks; evolution by the numbers and more. by Sandy Fritz Continuum It's time to pack up the camel and head for Bethlehem; Galileo finds life - on Earth; putting ocean breezes to work in Sweden; and more Natural Direction Darwin was wrong, say two eminent biologists. They've shown that bacteria can mutate in responce to environmental stresses, rather than at random. by Pamela Weintraub The Secret Life of the Neanderthal Thanks to new dating techniques, paleontologists have begun rethinking Neanderthals' role in man's history. by Shari Rudavsky Fiction: Hunters in the Forest Bored by the relentless predictability of the twenty-third century, Mallory takes a vacation in the Mesozoic Era by Robert Silverberg Pictorial: Cast in Stone Over long millennia, nature sculpted its image in stone, creating postcards from the past. We've just begun to unlock their secrets. by Sandy Fritz Life According to Gaia A kinder, gentler theory of evolution. The Gaia hypothesis proposes that living things and their environment act as a single organism. by Jane Bosveld Planit: The Omni Evolution Game Life's not one big crapshoot. Instead it's a board game that lets each player be Gaia. by Rollie Tesh and Tom Braunlich The Whole Evolution Almanac Here's evolution in a nutshell. Our time line, compiled by Delta Willis, summaries its history, and Gurney Williams III surveys some prominent scientist about its future. Try your hand at mutation with Hemant Chikarmane's tabletop kit. And return to your primitive roots with Keith Haray's devolution program. Interview While most computer scientists are content to work on creating an artificial intelligence, Chris Langton wants to create artificial life in a computer. And he's succeeded by Ed Regis Games Feeling lucky? Take our quiz on the number 13, bane of triskaidekaphobics. by Scot Morris Earth An entire family - the dinosaurs - has vanised. Whodunit? Or, more precisely, whatdunit? An asteriod has emerged as the chief suspect, and the hunt is on for the smoking crater. by Curt Wohleber Last Word Did you love word problems when you took match in high school? Well, try these math teasers anyway. by Dave Jaffe |
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