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He looks for the significance of 1) cranial changes in human evolution. 2) cranial differences among men today. The significance is harder to detect than the differences. Eskimos have bigger heads than white men but are little if any brighter. The three largest skulls on record belong to an Aleutian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Brainy People | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

In the German publication Natur und Kultur, ten authors launched violent attacks on the doctrine of organic evolution, accepted as an ABC fact by all biologists of standing in free countries. Gist of the German argument: Adolf Hitler and other splendid Aryans could not conceivably have evolved from ape men...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Brainy People | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

The warpath is no new path for the fighting doctor. During his 27 years of midwestern ministry he had trodden it often. He fought anti-evolution laws, was present at the Scopes trial. Once he asserted that Kansas City's syphilitic prostitutes, instead of being locked up in institutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Something Burning | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

Unlike smoothly-synchronized History 1 section men, the various teachers in Harvard's elementary mathematics courses can follow their least whim in determining the work to be done. Not only do some sections accomplish much more than others, but they may even use different texts. Naturally, when the ill-assorted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEPARTMENT OF UTTER CONFUSION | 1/17/1941 | See Source »

Died. Henri Bergson, 81, French philosopher, member of the French Academy, Nobel Prizewinner; in Paris. Last month Professor Bergson, whose philosophy of "creative evolution" had an enormous vogue before World War I, rose from his bed, declining the Vichy Government's offered exemption, renounced his honors and posts, went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 13, 1941 | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

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