... collection of often symmetrical soft-bodied forms.
These are the Ediacarans, eponymous subheroes of the Australian outcrop
where the first such fossils were found. The Ediacarans’ global garden, ”
more ... case of indi-
gestion, these larger cells benefitted from the metabolic independence
of the preplants now dwelling Jonah-like inside them. McMenamin’s
Garden of Edi...
... about the Judeo-Christian Garden of Eden for
example. Indeed, such stories seem to be a nearly universal feature
of human cultures. I have borrowed the biblical meaning of the
Garden of Eden’ ... populations from different regions of the world is
consistent with the Out of Africa theory, which is being
increasingly accepted as the preferred theory of human origins...
... charge of them, their departure up the hill carrying their poor belongings, the
sleepless night, the sound of the rain falling, the scents rising from the unseen earth.
The tap of the Italian ...
beat across the land of the Tell. But they die there frustrated. And the rains journey
thither and fail, sinking into the absinthe-coloured pools of the gorge....