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Evolution & Aquinas
At the A.A.A.S., George G. Simpson, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Vertebrate Paleontology, assailed the myth that "man is the darling of the gods." Unless man takes a decisive role in shaping his evolution, he stands no better chance to survive than the tapeworm, Simpson said.
Although man can store knowledge beyond his individual capacity and pass it on beyond individual memory," his culture evolves not in replacement of but in addition to his biological evolution, which also continues," Simpson said.
In the Belgian Congo, young King Baudouin arrived on a hastily planned flight from Brussels to see for himself what could be salvaged from Belgium's tattered colonial policy. Until last week Minister of the Congo Auguste de Schrijver clung fiercely to the line that the Belgian Congo Africans...
Landing at Stanleyville in the eastern Congo, he was greeted by mobs of black-shirted Africans shouting demands for independence. The King was jostled but kept smiling as the police used tear gas to control the crowd. That night, he broadcast an appeal to the nation: "I am trying, above...