Word: evolutionism
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The two were never opponents, never contestants in a common debate. It is doubtful that either would have known if their work was related. Yet, when Mendel's work was revived in 1900, his experiments dealt Darwinism a nearly fatal blow. The popularity of Darwin's thought was already on...
By a curiosity of evolution, every human skull harbors a prehistoric vestige: a reptilian brain.
This atavism, like a hand grenade cushioned in the more civilized surrounding cortex, is the dark hive where many of mankind's primitive impulses originate. To go partners with that throwback, Americans have carried out of their own history another curiosity that evolution forgot to discard as the country...
On Broadway, of course, every fossilized retread can take a privileged bow once a rainstorm of box-office cash has sanctified it - and Woman of the Year has been showered with a $3.5 million ad vance. As it happens, the evolution of a dramatic form is not that easy to...
White House officials were surprised at Haig's surprise about the Bush assignment. Said one aide: "Hell, if he was so concerned, why didn't he pick up the phone and call one of us and ask what's going on?" More important, they were angry that...