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MUSIC is moving into a more pungent commerce with the particulars of life. And cries of anarchy are beside the point. Anarchy is rapid evolution misperceived as chaos. Artists such as John Cage or Lukas Foss create through their irreverance. Their improvisatory music suggests that the entire aural material of...
Much of it is due to shortsighted overselling of the possibilities of evolutionary progress. Darwin's theories showed that man had evolved from primordial protoplasm. But that evolution from a lower to a higher form of life had taken some two billion years. (Biologist H. J. Muller has graphically...
Gene Pool. Had early man been naturally monogamous, evolution might not have favored intelligence and the dramatic expansion of the brain. "If every male had been allowed the opportunity to contribute equally to the gene pool," writes Fox, "then we might have been forever stuck as Homo stupidus." He and...
From this conjecture flows a host of fascinating theories. On the ability to inhibit the sex drive, all of civilization may be based. Says Fox: "Control over sex and aggression; feelings about status and personal wellbeing; group loyalty; conscience and guilt; sensitivity to incestuous impulses; identification with and rebellion against...
Murder and War. Probably the most controversial studies of man and animal -notably by Konrad Lorenz-have to do with the biology of aggression and its implication for modern society. Evolution indicates that the aggressive instinct tended to preserve order within a tribal structure. But most human aggregates have gone...