Word: evolutionism
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To play?to compete in or look on the struggle?is an instinct that stems from an early branch of man's evolutionary tree. Playing games not only sharpens the hunting and fighting skills of animals but also, as Jane Goodall found in her studies of the great primates, serves...
His critics, primarily the Sociobiology Study Group of Science for the People, have indulged in a form of academic vigilantism characterized by misrepresentation, systematic distortion and personal attack. Wilson's views, if correct and rigorously applied, are the antithesis of socialism, Communism and the welfare state; they indicate clearly...
Most cosmologists−scientists who study the structure and evolution of the universe−agree that the biblical account of creation, in imagining an initial void, may be uncannily close to the truth. The universe, they believe, is the expanding remnant of a huge fireball that was created 20 billion...
The fusion of hydrogen to form helium marks the beginning of a long and stable period in the evolution of the star−a combination of adolescence and middle age that constitutes 99% of the lifespan of a sun-size star. During this period, the tremendous energy radiating from the...
But after an hour's debate, the 300 assembled anthropologists overwhelmingly defeated the resolution-partly because to many it was reminiscent of the church's denunciation of Galileo or William Jennings Bryan's attack on the theory of evolution at the Scopes "monkey" trial. Margaret Mead shuddered...