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The creatures in Baikal and other ancient lakes could help researchers unravel fundamental mysteries about why some life forms speciate and others do not [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports that a Russian court will resume hearing testimony on February 21, 2007 in relation to the teaching of Darwinian evolution. Saint Petersburg, Russia-based public school number 148 11th grader Mariya Shraiber has sued the Russian Ministry of Education and Science, claiming that the school's biology textbook offends her religious sentiments because it does not allow for other theories, such as creationism. She also contends that the science in "The Origin of Species" is unproven and derived from Marxist-Leninist ideology.