SYNTHETIC-LIFE-- WASHINGTON-- Take a little machine that spits out genes, arrange them in a circle, hit them with some electricity and see if anything happens : that's how one expert describes a Washington-area research group's plans to try to synthesize a living chromosome as a first step toward making artificial life in laboratory dish . ( Nesmith, Cox News Service ).
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It was during Steward s teaching years at Columbia, which lasted until 1952, that he wrote arguably his most important theoretical contributions : Cultural Causality and Law : A Trial Formulation of the Development of Early Civilizations ( 1949b ), Area Research : Theory and Practice ( 1950 ), Levels of Sociocultural Integration ( 1951 ), Evolution and Process ( 1953a ), and The Cultural Study of Contemporary Societies : Puerto Rico ( Steward and Manners 1953 ).
