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In 1859, when Charles Darwin, armed with a mass of scientific facts, suggested that man had an ape ancestor, enthusiastic converts to his theory of evolution immediately pictured a great-grandfather-&-son development of gorilla or chimpanzee into Homo sapiens. Subsequent unearthing of scattered thighbones, skullcaps, jaws and teeth led...
The other obvious notable was Dr.Charles Galton Darwin, mathematician and scientific philosopher of Christ's Col lege, Cambridge, grandson of Charles Dar win, proponent of evolution by natural selection. As president of the section on mathematical and physical sciences, Dr.Darwin delivered a neat talk on logic in science, in...
The latter, who will now appear in the Senate almost automatically unless Senator Sheppard & colleagues change their minds again, is the tall country prosecutor, now heavier and greying, who 13 years ago, with the aid of the late William Jennings Bryan, beat the late Clarence Darrow in court and convicted...
* Who was prosecutor of the famed Monkey Trial of evolution-teaching John T. Scopes (TIME, May 18, 1925, et seq.).
¶ In Cleveland, at the nine Burrows Brothers stores, the best-seller was The Yearling, closely followed by Einstein & Infeld's The Evolution of Physics.