"Ssu-ma Ch'ien's many-volumed history of China established the frame within which Chinese history continued to be writ…"

"The diffusion of alchemy westward, like the movement of astrology eastward, became significant only in the centuries …"

"The Chinese language lacked terms capable of conveying Buddhist meanings; and not until the fifth century did a handf…"

"By the sixth century A.D., ...a distinctively Chinese Buddhist art had arisen, in which figures with Chinese dress an…"

"In Korea and Japan, the Chinese example began to find fertile ground as the political and social organization or thos…"

"The principle obstacle to human dominion over the rain forests is still the rich variety of parasites lying in wait f…"

"When variations could be so extravagantly successful, displacement of one humanoid population by another even more ef…"

"Ever since language allowed human cultural evolution to impinge upon age-old processes of biological evolution, human…"

"Looked at from the point of view of other organisms, humankind resembles an acute epidemic disease, whose occasional …"

"The laws of nature, as analyzed mathematically and descriptively by Ptolemy and Galen, bore an interesting, and perha…"