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  Short Stories
Ayala was born in Granada in 1906, and studied in Germany from 1929-30.
Ayala finally returned to live in his homeland in 1976 (the year of Franco’s death), and was elected to the Spanish Royal Academy and awarded Spain’s National Prize for Literature in 1984.
Francisco Umbral was born in Madrid in 1935.
users.adelphia.net /~fvila/Spain/short_stories.htm   (2126 words)

  
 A Citationist Perspective on the Work of Francisco J. Ayala
Ayala’s citation classic of 1972 on genetic variation in Drosophila willistoni seems to be the first large scale study of allozyme genetic variation, involving thousands of individuals from different and distant parts of the geographic area of the species genotyped at many allozyme loci.
As Ayala’s papers on genetics of parasitic microorganism seem to be rather unlinked to his other papers, we decided to split the main collection of citing papers into two subsets: those citing Ayala’s “parasitology papers” and all the rest.
Ayala’s 320 papers cited 4532 other papers which were published in 711 journals and authored by 7614 people, and were cited by 6074 papers which were published in 943 journals and authored by 10205 people.
www.garfield.library.upenn.edu /papers/ayala2004.html   (3856 words)

  
 Bush awarding National Medal to UCI's Ayala 05/16/02
Ayala is one of 15 scientists and engineers who on May 9 received the National Medal of Science, the highest scientific honor in the United States.
Ayala also has pointed out major flaws in the ``molecular clock'' hypothesis, which basically says it is possible to determine when certain species diverged from their common ancestors.
Ayala later left the clergy and, in a way friends describe as genteel and eloquent, he openly questioned such hot issues as creationism.
www.irvineworldnews.com /Astories/may16/ayala.html   (720 words)

  
 Quirino Ayala's Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Maria Felix Ayala was baptized on April 3, 1855 in the Catholic Church at San Felipe, Mexico.
Maria Alvina Ayala was baptized on December 20, 1856 in the Catholic Church at San Felipe, Mexico.
Francisco married on May 2, 1885 at La Quemada, Mexico to Vicenta Lucio, daughter of Pudenciano Lucio and Josefa Mendosa.
home.comcast.net /~hlgruss/ayala2.html   (379 words)

  
 Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society: Francisco Ayala   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Francisco J. Ayala, a biologist at the University of California at Irvine, is noted for his contributions to population and evolution genetics.
In addition, Ayala has served on the governing council of the National Academy of Sciences and as president and chairman of the board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
He was a chief witness in the creationist trials in Arkansas in 1981 that prevented religion from being taught as science in the classroom and has co-authored seminal papers on the role of expert witnesses in the judiciary.
www.sigmaxi.org /programs/prizes/procter.ayala.shtml   (204 words)

  
 Ayala Will Lecture on Human Biological, Theological Evolution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Ayala is the Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences and professor of philosophy at the University of Calfornia, Irvine.
Ayala is considered a founder of the philosophy of biology.
Ayala was awarded the National Medal of Science by President George W. Bush in 2002 and is a member of the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology.
uanews.org /cgi-bin/WebObjects/UANews.woa/wa/MainStoryDetails?ArticleID=10678   (441 words)

  
 Will Intelligence Fill the Universe? Experts debate on Closer To Truth.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Francisco Ayala, the Donald Bren professor of evolutionary genetics at the University of California at Irvine, is a leading thinker in biology and philosophy.
Francisco believes that humanlike intelligence is a unique event that will never repeat itself in the history of the universe.
But I have to agree with Francisco; even though I'm a physicist I think he's correct that the likelihood that intelligent life has evolved elsewhere in the cosmos is very small--in spite of the huge numbers that Leon correctly mentions.
www.closertotruth.com /topics/universemeaning/214/214transcript.html   (5086 words)

  
 TWO FACULTY MEMBERS NAMED TO PRESTIGIOUS POST OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR
Ayala, in Irvine's department of ecology and evolutionary biology, is the Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences.
Ayala's research focuses on population and evolutionary genetics, including the origin of species, genetic diversity of populations, the origin of malaria, the population structure of parasitic protozoa, and the molecular clock of evolution.
Ayala earned his B.S. from the University of Madrid in 1955 and his master's and doctorate degrees from Columbia University in 1963 and 1964, respectively.
www.ucop.edu /news/archives/2003/may22art1.html   (854 words)

  
 Woman in finger case arrested / She claimed she found digit in bowl of Wendy's chili
Anna Ayala, the Las Vegas woman who claimed to have bitten into a severed finger at a San Jose Wendy's restaurant, was arrested Thursday night in connection with the case, San Jose police said.
After her reported discovery of the finger, Ayala said she had trouble eating and sleeping and was forced to take medicine to help settle her nerves.
Ayala claimed that she had received a $30,000 settlement from the El Pollo Loco restaurant chain after her 13-year-old daughter fell ill with food poisoning.
sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/04/22/FINGER.TMP   (723 words)

  
 TTC: F. Ayala., candidato al Nobel
Ayala's storytelling succeeds in drawing us close to situations that, by virtue of their elaboration, are entirely credible, but whose imaginary dimension points to a far deeper reality.
Ayala, truly a writer in his century, has been able to express this dialectic with the precision of the finest intellectuals and the sensitivity of our finest creators.
When, in 1991, Ayala was awarded the Cervantes Prize for Literature, the highest honor that can be conferred upon a writer of the Spanish language, his creative work was praised as being in the Cervantine tradition and, like that of Cervantes, of universal significance.
www.cica.es /aliens/gittcus/nobel.html   (771 words)

  
 Legitimacy of Francisco Ayala Quote in "Evolutionary Theory Under Fire" (Science, 210:883, 1980)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Ayala is quoted as saying something to the effect of that paleontological data shows that these small genetic changes do not accumulate slowly over time.
Obviously I don't know whether or not Dr. Ayala actually said the statements he is quoted as saying over 20 years ago at this conference from this Science article, and I sincerely hope that he was not misquoted in it, as that would be most unfortunate.
We respect the fact that Dr. Ayala today denies having said this, but on the other hand it was said during a conversation over 20 years ago at a single conference which would tend to stretch one's memory, so who really knows what actually hapened.
www-acs.ucsd.edu /~idea/ayalaquote.htm   (1698 words)

  
 UCI biologist proposes pruning human evolutionary tree 06/26/03
In a new analysis of recent fossil findings, UC Irvine biologist Francisco J. Ayala concludes that the human evolutionary tree is weighed down by too many branches.
Ayala, who received the 2002 National Medal of Science for advances in evolutionary genetics, believes that paring down the Hominid family tree to four well-defined branches, plus one tentative branch, and redefining the species groups will better illustrate the course of human evolution.
Ayala and Cela-Conde propose trimming the human evolutionary tree by eliminating as branches Paranthropus, Orrorin and Kenyanthropus.
www.irvineworldnews.com /Astories/june26/ucievolve.html   (609 words)

  
 Quote: Francisco Ayala   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Ayala is being quoted to support the idea that mutations pretty well never happen.
So, in fact, Dr. Ayala was saying that a given human might have about four mutations.
Or, with the other number, a given human might have one chance in thirty of having a mutation.
www.don-lindsay-archive.org /creation/quote_ayala.html   (180 words)

  
 ayala   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
In the history of literary criticism the name of Ortega y Garret is indispensable, since in this, as well as in all other sectors of cultural activity, the influence of his thought has been most decisive.
Among his many influential works, Francisco Ayala has written Reflexiones sobre la estructura narrativa (criticism) and Espana, a la fecha.
At Professor Ayala's request, this essay, and Ideas sobre Pio Baroja, by Jose Ortega y Gasset, were translated by Richard Ford.
www.uchicago.edu /research/jnl-crit-inq/issues/v1/v1n2.ayala.html   (191 words)

  
 NCSE Resource   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
In the latest American Scientist, Francisco J. Ayala -- University Professor and the Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of California, Irvine; president of the scientific research society Sigma Xi; and supporter of NCSE -- calls for the improvement of science education in the American public schools.
One of the problems with science education as it exists today, Ayala comments, is "the conviction, common among biblical literalists and other Christian fundamentalists, that certain teachings of science -- concerning the origin of the universe, the living world and humans -- are contrary to biblical texts and the Christian faith."
Firmly rejecting the idea that pseudoscientific "alternatives" to evolution deserve to be aired in the public school science classroom, Ayala argues, "The theory of evolution needs to be taught in the schools because nothing in biology makes sense without it.
www.natcenscied.org /resources/news/2004/ZZ/183_ayala_on_teaching_science_6_17_2004.asp   (177 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Below is an article on teaching evolution from Francisco Ayala, a professor of evolutionary genetics at the University of California- Irvine
Ayala argues in three parts that 1) the fact of evolution is central to understanding modern biology, 2) there is no inherent conflict between evolution and religion, and 3) that Intelligent Design Theory amounts to religious blasphemy.
ARGUING FOR EVOLUTION By Francisco J. Ayala Department of Ecology and Evolution.
www.metanexus.net /metanexus_online/printer_friendly.asp?2564   (2112 words)

  
 San Francisco Artist | Marta Ayala | Murals and Paintings | Latin American Woman Artist
Marta Ayala is a Latin American woman artist specializing in murals and paintings.
Her San Francisco murals are part of the Precita Eyes Mural Walk and appear in public spaces throughout the Bay Area.
A native of El Salvador, she has been a resident of San Francisco for 34 years.
www.martaayalaminero.com   (163 words)

  
 OCRegister.com News
It seems as if life couldn't get any more grand for Francisco Ayala, the University of California, Irvine, evolutionary biologist and philosopher who is known by many as the ultimate Renaissance man. Then the phone rings.
Ayala earned that reputation over the past 35 years for groundbreaking studies of how various species and organisms evolved, the nature of disease, and for his public debates with proponents of creationism.
In 1981, Ayala and Harvard evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould stirred national interest when they testified in the case of McLean v.
www.ocregister.com /news/2002/12/focus_ayala_archivedstory.shtml   (886 words)

  
 The Reality-Based Community: ID = incompetent design
Francisco Ayala, ordained as a Dominican priest, has doctorates in biology and theology, specializing in evolutionary genetics and parasitology.
He teaches at UC Irvine (as University Professor, with appointments in biology and philosophy), holds the National Medal of Science, and is about to head his third National Academy of Sciences panel looking at the evolution v.
When he taught introductory biology at UCI, Ayala had Catholic students as well as Protestants coming to him to say, "I'll write the answer you want on the exam, but my faith forbids me to believe what you teach." To the Catholics, Ayala would simply say, "Ask your parish priest," with consistently satisfactory results.
www.markarkleiman.com /archives/spirituality_and_religion_/2005/10/id_incompetent_design.php   (648 words)

  
 Global Nation | INQ7.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
SAN FRANCISCO--The Ayala Foundation hosted a reception for the San Francisco Filipino-American community leaders to announce ongoing projects and partnerships to help alleviate poverty in the Philippines.
The Ayala Foundation also sought the assistance of community leaders in spreading the word about their services.
While a host of non-profit organizations charge from 10 to 50 percent for their services, Ayala Foundation charges a minimal 1 percent so that everything else will go directly to the specified recipient.
www.inq7.net /globalnation/ser_ann/2003/jun/06-02.htm   (160 words)

  
 Queries 43 - 51
was assigned the exploration of the Bay of San Francisco, while the Santiago and the Sonora sailed for the north.
In July 1784, he returned to Spain, and on March 14, 1785, was retired, at his own request, the royal order granting him full pay as captain of frigate in consideration of his services to California.
She was kind to sick and deserting sailors, acted as a doctor, nurse, and midwife in San Francisco and Santa Clara.
www.loscalifornianos.org /queries_43_-_50.htm   (2885 words)

  
 W3Reports - Daily Webmaster News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Francisco will be an added addition to the staff at HostingCorral.com”.
Francisco is currently working on a Computer Science Degree, and a Bachelors of Science in Computer Information Systems.
Francisco will be with the company starting on Monday 15, 2004.
www.w3reports.com /nucleus/plugins/print/print.php?itemid=659   (182 words)

  
 Jettison the Arguments, or the Rule?: Nelson, Paul
From a purely practical point of view, it is incomprehensible that a turtle should swim, a horse run, a person write, and a bird or bat fly with structures built of the same bones.
Francisco J. Ayala, "Evolution, The Theory of," Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th ed.
Ayala, F. and Valentine, J. Evolving: The Theory and Processes of Organic Evolution.
www.leaderu.com /orgs/arn/nelson/pn_jettison.htm   (9109 words)

  
 Cambrian Explosion
The fossil record is continually yielding more and better evidence of pre-Tommotian life, from the earliest biochemicals extracted from ~3,800 Ma cratonic rocks of southwest Greenland, through the perplexing grotesquery of the Ediacarans, to the strangely quiescent Nemakit-Daldynian age, when we find little more than a few small, undistinguished shelly remains.
Ayala, Francisco Jose; Rzhetsky, Andrey; Ayala, Francisco J. Origins of the Metazoan Phyla: Molecular Clocks Confirm Paleontological Estimates.
In Fitch, Walter M.; Ayala, Francisco J. Tempo and Mode in Evolution: Genetics and Paleontology 50 Years After Simpson.
www.peripatus.gen.nz /Paleontology/CamExp.html   (2892 words)

  
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Ayala FJ, Evolution of fitness, V. Rate of evolution of irradiated populations of Drosophila.
Dobzhansky T. Genetics of the Evolutionary Process, Columbia University Press, London and New York; 1970.
Dobzhansky T, Ayala FJ, Stebbins GL and Valentine JW.
www.geocities.com /bjorn_cedervall/Science/evolution_links.html   (300 words)

  
 Posted by Richard Arrowsmith on July 26   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
So I e-mailed Dr Ayala asking for his reaction, and his reply (received on 26 July 2001) was as follows:
Dr Ayala does not agree with the words attributed to him by Lewin; in fact his views on the subject are diametrically opposed.
Postscript: Since my communication with Dr Ayala I have been progressively contacting the sites in question, informing them of the error and suggesting that they remove the offending quote.
home.austarnet.com.au /stear/another_creationist_out_of_context_quote.htm   (523 words)

  
 Annoyances.org - re: problem with messenger (Windows XP Discussion Forum)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
(francisco ayala: Sat, Jun 5, 2004, 1:44 pm)
(francisco ayala: Sat, Jun 5, 2004, 3:51 pm)
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www.annoyances.org /exec/forum/winxp/1086471537   (172 words)

  
 Philosophy of Biology, Winter 2002, UCI
You must meet With the TA who grades your papers before or after each paper, and this TA must approve all your paper topics.
(R) Ayala February 6 Genetics and Ethics: Dolly, Cloning, and The Bell Curve.
Ayala March 13 Adaptation and Novelty in Evolution.
www.ags.uci.edu /~dehill/philbio   (692 words)

  
 Philosophy of Biology Conference
The flaws, oddities, and sloppiness of the living world come about by a process that incorporates chance and necessity, mutation and natural selection.
Ayala, F.J. Adaptation and Novelty: Teleological Explanations in Evolutionary Biology.
Ayala, F.J. In William Paleys Shadow: Darwins Explanation of Design.
www.csun.edu /~philos33/PoB-Conf-2005.html   (624 words)

  
 Evolution: Religion: Science and Faith
Please go to the forums to read our panelists' answers to the user questions.
Francisco J. Ayala is professor of biological sciences and of philosophy at the University of California, Irvine.
His scientific research focuses on population and evolutionary genetics; he also writes about the interface between religion and science.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/evolution/religion/faith/statement_01.html   (495 words)

  
 April 8 LBL Weekly Law Resume   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Maria Medina was struck by a car driven by an uninsured motorist.
Medina and her husband, Francisco Ayala, made claim under the uninsured motorist coverage of their policy.
Mercury Insurance Company denied the claim because Medina had received workers' compensation benefits in excess of the policy limit of the uninsured motorist coverage.
www.caiia.com /Low_4-8-04.htm   (627 words)

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