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		<title>May 14, 1864 (a Saturday)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 08:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A fragment of the Orgueil meteorite.
On this date, a carbonaceous chondrite disintegrated and fell in fragments near the French town of Orgueil.  One specimen was immediately examined by the French scientist S. Cloëz, who commented that its content &#8220;would seem to indicate the existence of organized substances in celestial bodies.&#8221;  Subsequently, several eminent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 6, 1966 (a Friday)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 00:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Olsen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On this date, American paleobotanist Elso S. Barghoorn of Harvard reported the discovery of Precambian spherical one-celled alga-like microfossils (named Eobacterium isolatum, which means &#8220;solitary dawn bacteria&#8221;) 3.4 billion years old, Earth&#8217;s earliest life forms.  Barghoorn, with J. William Schopf, studied the 3.2 billion year old chert (a flintlike or quartz-like rock) of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 4, 1825 (a Wednesday)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 07:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Olsen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On this date, the English biologist Thomas Henry Huxley was born in Ealing (then a village in Middlesex).
Darwin danced around human evolution in On the Origin of Species in 1859, not addressing the topic until 1871 in The Descent of Man. Yet Huxley wrote about human and primate paleontology in Man&#8217;s Place in Nature in 1863. [...]]]></description>
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