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To understand how traits pass from one living being to its descendants, we need to go back in time to the 19th century and a man named Gregor Mendel.
Americans recognized its achievement, calling the trail, "One of the great achievements in military engineering of the 20th century."
Over the past century, particle physicists have been studying matter and forces at higher and higher energies.
But the Greeks were great scientists of the mind and in the 5th century B.C., Leucippus of Miletus came up with one of the most enduring scientific ideas ever.
Early this century, scientists studying the outer reaches of the universe confirmed that not only is everything moving apart from everything else, as you would expect in a universe that began in hot, dense big bang, but that the universe's expansion also seems to be accelerating.
If you wanted to know the answer to this question in third century B.C.E.
This movement took an old concept from the 4th century developed by Plato and Aristotle, called "The Great Chain of Being."
In the 8th century, Scandinavian marauders started taking over much of England.
Over the last century, these two ideas have utterly transformed our understanding of the universe.
With all of this, we see that there's a new 21st century battle brewing, and governments don't necessarily take a part.
And so it should be not fearful, it should be inspiring to the same governments that fought for civil rights, free speech and democracy in the great wars of the last century, that today, for the first time in human history, we have a technical opportunity to make billions of people safer around the world that we've never had before in human history.
Its history began in early 17th century Kyoto, where a shrine maiden named Izumo no Okuni would use the city's dry Kamo Riverbed as a stage to perform unusual dances for passerby, who found her daring parodies of Buddhist prayers both entertaining and mesmerizing.
Out of their work came the rock cycle, which combined with plate tectonics in the mid-twentieth century to give us the great molten-crusting, quaking, all-encircling theory of the Earth, from a gallstone to a 4.5 billion-year-old planet.
More than a century ago, he was looking back on his life, and he wrote this: "There isn't time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account.
In the 20th century, we literally spent trillions of dollars building infrastructure to get water to our cities.
Since the 19th century, beekeepers have reported occasional mass disappearances, giving them enigmatic names like disappearing disease, spring dwindle disease and autumn collapse.
Even in the 21st century, only a few people in surgery teams have actually seen a working heart.
And when we can understand our human connections with our groundwater and all of our water resources on this planet, then we'll be working on the problem that's probably the most important issue of this century.
Although the original versions had been composed by some of the most respected 20th century composers, and the repetitive versions had been assembled by brute force audio editing, people rated the repetitive versions as more enjoyable, more interesting and more likely to have been composed by a human artist.
The Romantic poets of the early 19th century believed melancholy allows us to more deeply understand other profound emotions, like beauty and joy.
And in the 20th century, medical anthropologists, like Arthur Kleinman, gathered evidence from the way people talk about pain to suggest that emotions aren't universal at all, and that culture, particularly the way we use language, can influence how we feel.
In a sense, if I am allowed to be provocative, China today is closer to Britain in the 19th century.
And to be castigating China for doing that which the West did in the 19th century, smacks of hypocrisy.
You can't judge a guy in the 15th century by modern standards.
Can't we just keep celebrating the way we've been doing for a century, without having to delve into all this serious research?
One proponent of this sort of idea was Leopold Kronecker, a professor of mathematics in 19th century Germany.
Or there's the non-Euclidean work of Bernhard Riemann in the 1850s, which Einstein used in the model for general relativity a century later.
Here's an even bigger jump: mathematical knot theory, first developed around 1771 to describe the geometry of position, was used in the late 20th century to explain how DNA unravels itself during the replication process.
And for me, an American art historian from the 21st century, this was the moment that the painting spoke to me.
Vitalism began to fade in the Western world following the Scientific Revolution in the 17th century.
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