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[Sunday 22 June 2008 - Saturday 28 June 2008]

[Notebook: DB 64 Gravitation]

[page 63]

Sunday 22 June 2008

Barber, page 161: A tremendous number of cultures, ancient and modern, New World and Old World, have believed [hypothesis] that a second world exists besides our own, a world populated by willful but intangible beings known as spirits.' Barber

Monday 23 June 2008

Tuesday 24 June 2008

Wednesday 25 June 2008

Physics seems to be done (for the moment) and it is time to begin thinking about the Linnaean network, whose layered structure is reflected in the paleontological record. Klein Klein

The evolutionary tree at any moment is a snapshot of the dynamics.

CONTINUUM = m

Minimum structure
VACUUM (SYMMETRIC UNIVERSE) = Maximum structure

Subcycles of a permutation are dynamically defined subsets of the total set of permutations.

Tooth shape is a relative invariant in the life of an animal.

Thursday 26 June 2008

Friday 27 June 2008

Saturday 28 June 2008

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Barber, Elizabeth Wayland, The Mummies of Urumchi, W. W. Norton & Company 2000 W W Norton: 'In the museums of Ürümchi, the windswept regional capital of the Uyghur Autonomous Region (also known as Chinese Turkestan), a collection of ancient mummies lies at the center of an enormous mystery. Some of Ürümchi's mummies date back as far as 4,000 years—contemporary with the famous Egyptian mummies but even more beautifully preserved. Surprisingly, these prehistoric people are not Asian but Caucasoid—tall, large-nosed and blond with thick beards and round eyes. What were these blond Caucasians doing in the heart of Asia? What language did they speak? Might they be related to a "lost tribe" known from later inscriptions? Few clues are offered by their pottery or tools, but their clothes—woolens that rarely survive more than a few centuries—have been preserved as brightly hued as the day they were woven. Elizabeth Wayland Barber describes these remarkable mummies and their clothing, and deduces their path to this remote, forbidding place. The result is a book like no other—a fascinating unveiling of an ancient, exotic, nearly forgotten world. A finalist for the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize. Elizabeth Wayland Barber, archaeologist and linguist, is a world authority on ancient textiles. She teaches at Occidental College in California.
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Klein, Richard G, The Human Career : Human Biological and Cultural Origins , University of Chicago Press 1999 Review: 'The Human Career describes one of the most spectacular changes to have occurred in our understanding of human evolution. The once-popular fresco showing a single file of marching hominids becoming ever more vertical, tall and hairless now appears to be a fiction. ... For most of the past four million years several species of hominids coexisted, sometimes in limited geographical areas. The eventual peopling of the planet with a single homogeneous species of hominid is shown to be exceptional on the geological timescale. ... If you could have only one book that deals with human evolution, this is definitely the one to choose. ' Jean-Jacques Hublins, Nature. 403:364 27 January 2000.
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