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This predatory vision of man's development is a violent one, but Ardrey tends to look upon all evolution as a harsh process. He claims death is the agent of natural selection, and mutation, the agent of adaptation. Actually, most selection is more gentle. Mutations are rare. Fluctuations in the...
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences yesterday continued its discussion of federal aid to the University and noticed at least one encouraging sign: a trend away from federal support of specific applied research towards support of research in general. Faculty members also saw hope that this evolution would continue so...
John Coltrane has been largely concerned with fulfilling the harmonic implications of Parker's music, but for all his seriousness he is capable of greater power and lyricism than all but a couple of his contemporaries. Giant Steps Atlantic 1311) and My Favorite Things (Atlantic 1361) are two landmarks of...
Charles Darwin propounded the doctrine that evolution occurs by natural selection, in which some individuals happen, by chance combination of inherited characteristics, to be better adapted to their environment than others-"survival of the fittest." Geneticists later concluded that inheritance was locked in a set of genes that usually bred...
In the present state of the world's evolution, Antarctica is the only continent that is overwhelmingly in the grip of an ice age. In its vast expanse (5,300,000 sq. mi.) lies the key to much of the world's weather. It holds 90% of all...