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*Since cosmic rays and the earth's slight natural radioactivity have identical ionizing effects, some biologists believe them to cause the small number of mutations which normally occur in all plants and animals and whose occasional increased fitness-for-survival is one of the mainsprings of evolution.
Like Sumner, Keller applied Darwinian theories on evolution and natural selection to man-made institutions, constantly inveighed against pampering weaklings either among men or their institutions. Scorning the word "sociology" as smacking of uplift, Keller and Sumner called their subject societology. Greatest Keller precept, which no Keller student ever forgot...
As an orthopedic surgeon in World War I, Dr. Morton was struck by the amount of foot trouble and the difficulty of analyzing it. After the war he spent five years as a researcher of the American Museum of Natural History, studying the evolution of the human foot, went on...
Cooperation has been a more important evolutionary jorce in the development of man than has the bitter competitive struggle for existence. So asserted a learned U.S. biologist last week in an attack on those who use the doctrine of evolution to justify totalitarian brutality and aggression. The attacker was Zoologist...
"Competition plays a tremendously important part in evolution but the survival of the fittest does not always mean the survival of the strong, the predators, the parasites or even the adequately defended organisms." Sheer struggle tends to be supplanted by cooperation, Emerson observed, in each evolutionary step upward from the...