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...Nancy Armstrong This essay follows the question of variation—why are no two natural beings the same?—from its subordinate role in Darwin’s early theory of natural selection to a dominant but carefully restricted role as a positive incentive to reproduction in his later theory of sexual selection...

...Alanna Thain This essay explores the affective intensity of movement in a recent choreography by noted French Canadian choreographer Marie Chouinard. In bODY rEMIX/ gOLDBERG vARIATIONS , dancers perform with all manners of prosthetics and bodily extensions--crutches, ski poles, coat racks, pointe...

...Tara McPherson This piece considers some recent variations on the debate around the role of cultural theory within the digital humanities, code studies, and platform studies in order to argue for a theoretically explicit form of digital praxis within the digital humanities. It takes seriously Gary...

... in Medical Research.” New England Journal of Medicine 344.18 ( 2001 ): 1392 -93. Shields, Robert, and Arianne Heinrichs, eds. A Trends Guide to Genetic Variation and Genomic Medicine . (March). Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2002 . Single Nucleotide Polymorphism. 9 June 2004. National Center...

... that no embryo or fetus has. Merleau-Ponty understands the flesh of the world in terms of active/passive, touching/touched reversibility (differ- ent variations of which obtain within each body-subject, between subjects, and between subjects...

... of a continuum is not a good model for sexual variations; one needs one of those mathematical models they do now with strange topographies and convoluted shapes. There needs to be some kind of model that is not binary, because sexual variation is a system of many differences, not just a couple of salient ones...

... and economy, it more often than not disappointed those expectations.8 The most frequent first question I would be asked from the audience was a variation of: "Where is imperialism in your scheme of things?" The anxiety expressed in this question followed from the fact that I had not spoken of Iran in terms...

... worked when their children and grandchildren visited the site. And existing satellite maps of the region show little significant surface variation. But Tjipel will need new strategies if she is to stay in place into the next century. The social, ecological, and economic materials that compose her...

... variation that intends to sample racially coded groups: one African (Yoruban), two Asian (Han Chinese and Japanese), and one Caucasian (northern and western European).1 What, many ask, happened? Did scientists somehow regress...

... identified as the patron goddess of homosexuality in his Symposium. A slight variation, Uraniad, was used to describe lesbians. (vii-viii) Although coming from a female goddess, the term Uranian refers to male homosexuals (obviously the only kind of homosexuality of interest to Plato), and it does so...

... . ____. The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication . 2 vols. New York: Orange Judd, 1868 . Donovan, Edward. A Naturalist's Repository of Exotic Natural History . 2 vols. London: W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1822 -24. Egerton, Judy. George Stubbs, 1724-1806 . London: Tate Gallery, 1984 . Evans, E...

..., l, l, l. Dear l, we need to play it again and again and again, patiently recording the variations in our tunes. (128) The interstices between “the variations in our tunes” and between the variations on Le Désert...

... . Smith Neil . Uneven Development . Oxford : Blackwell , 1984 . Sorkin Michael . “ Introduction: Variations of a Theme Park .” Variations of a Theme Park . Ed. Sorkin Michael . New York : Noonday , 1992 . xi - xv . Tadiar Neferti Xina M . “ Sexual Economies in the Asia...

... . 13 Oct. 1861 . http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/entry-3285 . ———. On the Origin of Species . London : J. Murray , 1859 . ———. The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication. Vols. 1 and 2 . 1868 . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins UP , 1998 . ———. On the Various Contrivances...

... brilliant Dorabella Variation (1899).18 (This is different from the represen- tation of birdsong in music per se—as in Olivier Messaien’s lengthy Livre du Saint Sacrement for organ [1984] and Allesandro Poglietti’s Rossignolo...

... that boys and girls necessarily differ in their responses to their origins in the body of another and that this variation depends on whether they sense that they resemble their maternal origin in power and manner of genera- tion...

... variations on the theme, concept, complications, contradictions, and complex history of black marriage. Contributors—who include historians, social scientists, literary theorists, and legal scholars—examine what the institution has meant and continues to mean in African American culture, from both historical...

..., and Chaba Zahouania. We are in each instance relayed in sounds that overwhelm the stability sought in official accounts and institutional renderings of what turn out to be multiple variations of a Mediterranean composition.1...

... . Subotnik Rose Rosengard . Deconstructive Variations: Music and Reason in Western Society . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 1996 .^F0^I am very grateful to Rey Chow and James Steintrager for their editorial patience and generous suggestions, as well as to Mary Chapman for commenting on an earlier...

... or disad- vantages conferred by particular variations determine whether they will persist through what Darwin terms “natural selection.” Given the degree of variation within species, he writes, “[I]ndividuals having any advantage...