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Koenigswald and Weidenreich agree that the Java "ape man" as well as the Peking man is definitely human, and that the Peking Man specimens are probably older chronologically (from geological evidence). It remains uncertain which of the two is the more primitive from the point of view of evolution. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Old Men | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

Eastern Front will become a reality." "The result of the war is not to be decided only by military operations," Premier Edouard Daladier significantly declared. "In the final decision the evolution of international policy and the relationship between powers and the action of moral forces will play a big part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Reactions to Aggression | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Ziegler traces the evolution of the clubs which line Prospect Street from the time the Ivy was established in 1879 to the protest issued by Sophomores last spring when 59 per cent found the system in need of improvement and 29 per cent advocated fundamental changes.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tiger Club System Is Responsible for "Intellectual Inertia," Declares Article | 12/7/1939 | See Source »

Highlights of last week's convention of the National Academy of Sciences at Brown University (Providence, R. I.): Totipotency. When a flatworm (Planaria maculata, which inhabits fresh water) is cut into pieces, each piece will grow into a healthy and flawless new flatworm. Just how this marvelously convenient process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Soundings | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

PROFESSOR TINDALL, in this witty and searching book on the outstanding primitivist of our time, has been concerned with two fundamental points: Lawrence viewed as in the stream of post-Victorian intellectual revolt against Christianity, evolution and scientists in general; and secondly, Lawrence taken as a symbol of the frustrated...

Author: By Milton Crane., | Title: The Bookshelf | 10/28/1939 | See Source »

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