Biography Category
controversial field that studies how natural selection, previously used only to explain the evolution of physical characteristics, shapes behavior in ...
(yän vän sk ´r l) (KEY) , 1495–1562, Dutch portrait and religious painter, influenced by Gossaert in Utrecht and by Dürer in Nuremberg. About 15...
city (1994 pop. 111,845), North Rhine–Westphalia, W Germany, on the Sieg River. Iron ore is mined nearby, and the city has iron foundries. Other man...
(sô´ch ) (KEY) , city (1989 pop. 337,000), Krasnodar Territory, S European Russia, on the east shore of the Black Sea, in the foothills of the Cauca...
(s väs´) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 219,122), capital of Sivas prov., central Turkey, on the Kizil Irmak. An important trade and manufacturing center, ...
1856–1942, Scottish biblical scholar and Hebraist, b. Calcutta, India. He was professor of Old Testament language, literature, and theology in the U...