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The determinism that has governed cultural evolution has never been the equivalent of the determinism that governs a closed physical system... retrospectively (just as)... scientists can readily reconstruct the causal chain of adaptations that led from fish to birds. But what biologist looking at a primitive shark could have envisioned...
As a result of the studied neglect of the science of culture, the world is full of moralists insisting that they have freely willed what they were unwittingly forced to want... To change social life for the better one must begin with the knowledge of why it usually changes for...
Your article on man's origins [Nov. 7] was fascinating. I find it somewhat strange that religious people refuse to accept the idea of evolution while accepting without apparent murmur other scientific knowledge. Such people hold out against evolution because they think it discredits the Bible. I believe Christianity...
May I submit that should this modern concept of evolution be tried in a court of law, the case would be dismissed for lack of sufficient evidence.
Don't look back: the Fundamentalist contingent is in hot pursuit. The conscientious scholarship of a Leakey notwithstanding, there are millions of people who still pray that any truth of evolution will not become generally known or believed.