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The recipient, in his Rumford Medal Lecture, spoke on the evolution of the capacity of plants and animals to respond to light cues. Wald described the responses in terms of molecular or chemical mechanisms.
For those who have serious doubts as to their math abilities, an option in biology might replace the semester of mathematics; such a course would preferably develop a few large concepts--like evolution and genetics--rather than wander into descriptive specificity. Under this program a second semester which explored biochemical...
On the other hand, the young psychologist Hugo Munsterberg, James' assistant, was the one who called Gertrude his ideal student. She participated animatedly in his seminars, as well as in those of George Santayana, who gave her new reading in the English philosophers. Other subjects she took included history, modern...
The 19th century's bootless battle between science and religion is all but forgotten -but not in Missouri's Ozark Mountains. Last week the state legislature was asked to ban the teaching of evolution as "a fact" in Missouri high schools and colleges.* The bill's author...
Legislator Bruffett, who does his school-teaching in Bradleyville (pop. 69), would allow universities -but not high schools -to teach evolution as a theory, if it were "made clear that the only true account of Creation is the Biblical account." Texts used in Missouri high schools and colleges explain that...