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These are some of the teachings of sociobiology, a new and highly controversial scientific discipline that seeks to establish that social behavior?human as well as animal???has a biological basis. Its most striking tenet: human behavior is genetically based, the result of millions of years of evolution. Some sociobiologists go so far as to suggest that there may be human genes for such behavior as conformism, homosexuality and spite. Carried to an extreme, sociobiology holds that all forms of life exist solely to serve the purposes of DNA, the coded master molecule that determines the nature of all organisms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why You Do What You Do | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

...Graffs gloomy view, "Man is by nature a predatory animal???he uses what's available." He contends that waste has been built into the values of an ever-expanding American economy. In the past, technology provided answers for the problems it created. Now Graff fears that there may be no wondrous new energy source when the old forms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: THE ENERGY WAR | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

...DUMB-ANIMAL???Osbert Sitwell?Lippincott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Atheism to Theosophy* | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

...bitterness causing the secretion of saliva and gastric juices. When quinine gets into the blood it causes beneficent sweating. It is a bactericide also, slightly stronger than the same strength of carbolic acid, yet not exceptionally powerful. Bacteria are low-grade vegetable organisms. The thing which causes malaria is animal???plasmodium malariae?introduced into the human blood stream by a breed of mosquito. Quinine in the blood kills the plasmodium in the blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dutch Monopoly | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

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