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The Piltdown Man (Eoanthropus), who lived 1,125,000 years ago. and not Pithecanthropus erectus, who was wandering around as late as 500,000 B. C., was apparently the first true man. Darwin and Lamarck to the contrary, evolution is uniform, centrifugal, creational. It has proceeded steadily (Darwin said a...
Harvard recently agreed to accept, from a well-known preparatory school, a handful of students who should be exempt from entrance examinations. A stand among the first five or ten of the graduating class would be sufficient to secure admission. This was another logical step in the cutting of the...
Incidentally, the statement now issued should expose, once and for all, the fallacy of one assumption which in recent time has been widespread. The idea has been repeatedly offered that as construction of the new Harvard houses attained physical completion, President Lowell would choose that occasion for a decision to...
"Meaning is connected with psychology in its vagueness. Even 'cat' is not precise, for at some time in evolution there were animals not quite 'cats.' At one instant it would have been difficult to say whether Napoleon was alive or dead, though when he was alive he took care to...
While the "stream of physical tendency throughout the universe is on the whole downward, toward disintegration and dissipation, the organic movement, on this planet at least, is upward, and life structures on the whole becoming more complex throughout the course of organic evolution. From the viewpoint of physics, life and...