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It is difficult to recapture the feeling of "intellectual holocaust" into which Darwin's doctrine of evolution by natural selection plunged the world. So much the better that Stanford University's Professor William Irvine should be the man to have made the attempt. U.S. biography has become world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Barnacles for All | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

Drafts in the Abbey. The theme of Apes, Angels & Victorians is the evolution of evolutionary theory, and it is not Author Irvine's fault if Darwin the man almost steals the whole show. Imbedded in crustaceans, orchids, insectivorous plants and earthworms. Darwin seems at one moment the most innocent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Barnacles for All | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

Parker, who retired from the University in 1935, continued his work until a few years ago and even published a book in his early eighties. He specialized in the nervous system, and he extensively studied its evolution and how if affected color changes in fish and chameleons.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Professor Parker Dies at 90 | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

Sense of Humor contains humorous writing, but very title of it is Potter's; it also contains some interesting ideas on the evolution of the British sense of humor. The format, however, is ridiculously ambitious. One finds oneself hoping that the conceptural scheme of the work is a literary practical...

Author: By Edmund H. Harvey, | Title: Sense of Humor | 3/8/1955 | See Source »

When Jung started out as a practicing analyst, he found again and again that ancient symbols and rituals were repeated in the dreams of 20th century patients who could not possibly have heard or read of them. He concluded that mankind's collective unconscious 1) far predates the evolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Old Wise Man | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

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