Word: evolutionism
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The pawns were human when World Chess Champion Mikhail Botvinnik took on the 1957 titleholder, Vassily Smyslov, in a "Peace Fund" benefit match that enthralled 15,000 Muscovites. So were the king, queen, and all the other pieces in the latest Marxist evolution of an ancient Oriental version of chess...
The Revolution. Along with poetry's popularity, and adding to it, has come a striking change in poetry's style and content, a vigorous evolution that may yet become the second great poetic revolution of the century. The first revolution, which rolled over the language during the decade...
Ardrey cites as proof for his mutation theory of evolution the fact that few transitional forms of species have ever been found. His reasoning is fallacious. As Simpson points out, there are always many more adapted animals than transitional animals; probability alone would indicate that transition forms should be scarce...
There is much about evolution that is not understood. Ardrey takes the explosive growth of man's brain, occurring in the geologically instantaneous time of about a half-million years, for granted. Many anthropologists from Darwin to Eiseley have been unable to do so. This growth is unprecedented in recent...
Then, too, we have considerable evidence of man's further somatic evolution since the man-apes: he has grown, his jaw has shrunk, his face become smaller and lower on his head. If man's body can change and his mind expand, there is no reason why the "instinctual bundle...