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Many scientists' prophecies about man's future are dark and gloomy. Man is doomed, say the crepehangers, to overpopulate his planet and hang on, half-starved until something worse happens. British Biologist Julian Huxley is more hopeful. In his new book, Evolution in Action (Harper; $2.75) Huxley says...
"The critical point in the evolution of man . . . " says Huxley, " was when he . . . could organize his experience in a common pool. It was this which made human life different ... Animal types have limited possibilities, and sooner or later exhaust them. Man has an unlimited field of possibilities ... He has developed...
Ichthyologist James Leonard Brierley Smith, of Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, made a formal call last week on stony old Prime Minister Malan. He walked across the lawn of Malan's Cape Town residence and reverently laid a treasure at the Prime Minister's feet. It was a...
He found nothing suitable in the junk-shop, but Collins' suggestion set him thinking. The trouble with radar, he decided, is a too-prosperous infancy. It grew up in wartime, when the military had unlimited money to lavish on it. Each improvement was achieved by adding complication. So. radar...
Everyone, it seems, is 74 trillion years old, and has been reincarnated over & over in cycles ("spirals"), which have been getting shorter as evolution has speeded up. The current spiral began a mere 35,000 years ago. Everyone has a "theta being," which represents his essential thought-energy and becomes...