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WHAT is man? To this age-old question, the social sciences are now proposing some extraordinarily complicated new answers. First and foremost, man is an animal-but he is neither the end product of evolution nor much more than a mediocre biological success. The body he inhabits is primitive, at...
The subject of man as an animal is older than Darwin. But to Darwin's insights into man's evolution, the new approach is adding radical new dimensions. It rejects the view that biology has nothing to do with behavior, and proposes the hypothesis that culture itself has...
2001: A Space Odyssey. Stanley Kubrick's version of human and technological evolution as controlled by a mysterious black monolith that appears when the sun, a planet, and its moons, are in orbital conjunction. Cinerama, as such, has never been used better, and the special effects are revolutionary. I don...
After studying the evolution of Cabinets from George Washington's first appointees onward, Political Scientist Richard F. Fenno Jr. wrote: "The Cabinet is the show window of the Administration, and a favorable reception for the group will be an asset the President can use to augment his own public...
FROM the moment when living organisms appeared in the seas billions of years ago, they seemed driven by an instinctive urge to move beyond their own environment. Out of the dark waters they groped across aeons, toward the light and land and air. Like those remote ancestors, man, too, has...