Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 larry 2/4/84; site hlwpc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxn!mhuxh!hlexa!hlwpc!cb From: cb@hlwpc.UUCP (Carl Blesch) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Magazine citation Message-ID: <385@hlwpc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 9-Oct-84 12:42:50 EDT Article-I.D.: hlwpc.385 Posted: Tue Oct 9 12:42:50 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 10-Oct-84 04:26:21 EDT References: <32500003@uiucdcsb.UUCP>, <596@utastro.UUCP> <170@mouton.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Short Hills, NJ Lines: 24 >I read yesterday an article which discussed an idea put forth >by some scientist that birds and mammals are more closely related than >birds and reptiles. Anyway, one of the comments was that some research >about protein comparisons had indicated the closest relative to man >for the particular protein was a chicken. >However, I went back today and was unable to find the magazine again. >I was merely browsing among the periodical shelves and have no idea >where to find the magazine. I do remember that the reason I picked >it up was an article by Stephen Hawkings ( spelling? , The british >physicist confined to a wheelchair) about space and time and >singularities and the origin of the univerise. >Also, the magazine struck me as using "British" (as opposed to American) >english. >Rich Hammond The magazine was New Scientist -- I just read the Hawking interview myself a few days ago. Sorry I can't give you the date of the issue, because I just had a clip of the Hawking article -- not the whole magazine, and I've passed the clip along to someone else. I'd venture to say that it was sometime within the past two months, however. Carl Blesch