Word: eiseley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MIND AS NATURE (60 pp.)-Loren Eiseley-Harper...
...late distinguished scientist who, in his declining years, persisted in wearing enormous padded boots. He had developed a wholly irrational fear of falling through the interstices of that largely empty molecular space which common men in their folly speak of as the world." To this extent, writes Anthropologist Loren Eiseley, 55, has the world of science diverged from the world of common sense, with little communication between them. In his own field, Eiseley has labored to rejoin the two worlds by tracing man's 20th century behavior back to its dark evolutionary beginnings, in language that is not only...
...Dream Animal. Most scientists ruthlessly exclude anything personal in their writings; Eiseley makes science an intensely personal experience. One evening, he recalls in The Firmament of Time, he was accidentally locked in a museum among grotesque skeletons of giant crabs. As the crabs began to glow in the light of sunset, he had an uneasy feeling that they had come back to life and were once again going to take over the world. When a guard showed up, Eiseley gasped in relief: "Davis, you're a vertebrate. I never appreciated it before, but I do now. I believe...
...Eiseley writes extensively of evolution only to show that it does not completely account for the success of human life. The brain, Eiseley emphasizes, allows man to escape from laws of evolution, since his body no longer has to keep adapting to environment to survive. "Man," Eiseley writes in The Immense Journey, a study of the origin of life, "was something the world had never seen before-a dream animal-living at least partially within a secret universe of its own creation and sharing that secret universe in his head with other similar heads. Man had escaped...
There is much about evolution that is not understood. Ardrey takes the explosive growth of man's brain, occurring in the geologically instantaneous time of about a half-million years, for granted. Many anthropologists from Darwin to Eiseley have been unable to do so. This growth is unprecedented in recent evolutionary history. Why did it occur...