Word: evolutionism
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Pacemaker. Most biologists believe that the evolution of higher organisms works through genes-tiny little somethings (probably protein molecules) strung along the chromosomes in the germ plasm. Thousands of genes controlling various body characteristics have been traced in Drosophila melanogaster, the scientifically celebrated little fruit fly. It is by changes...
Last week the American Association for the Advancement of Science held its winter convention in Richmond, Va. With an attendance of 7,000 and 1,800 papers to be presented, the multiple preoccupations of science had to share the spotlight. On hand to see that the pituitary got its share...
He is exasperated because opposition to the teaching of evolution has not died out, although it is accepted as an ABC fact by every biologist of standing, and modern biology is unintelligible without it. As a horrendous example of pussyfooting, he quotes the declaration of a Philadelphia school principal:
Crusader. Oscar Riddle was born in Cincinnati, Ind., got his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, after returning from a natural history expedition to South America's Orinoco River, was well on the way to becoming an ichthyologist when a lecture on evolution gave a new turn to his...
Merlyn's method of education is to put the Wart through more metamorphoses than a moth ever dreamed of. Ffft! The Wart is a fish, learning self-preservation from a tench and a pike. Presto! He is a hawk, learning bravery. He becomes a snake, learning 20th-century theories...