Word: biologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Science, Biologist Elso S. Barghoorn of Harvard tells about recent archaeological studies that have pretty well settled the question. Ancient Indian fish weirs found under Boston's Boylston Street have been excavated and their age determined by carbon 14 dating. One weir proved to be about 4,500 years old. Its position below sea level indicates that the tidal flat on which it was built has sunk about 20 ft. This works out to an average submergence of roughly six inches a century since Massachusetts was occupied by the fish-catching Indians...
...Cornelius B. Philip of the U.S. Public Health Service has spent a lifetime studying ticks. Like many a biologist who has an intimate understanding of an alien species, Dr. Philip seems to sympathize with his little associates. Ticks are neither beautiful nor intelligent, he reports in Scientific Monthly, but they have a rugged persistence which Dr. Philip admires...
Many scientists' prophecies about man's future are dark and gloomy. Man is doomed, say the crepehangers, to overpopulate his planet and hang on, half-starved until something worse happens. British Biologist Julian Huxley is more hopeful. In his new book, Evolution in Action (Harper; $2.75) Huxley says that man is "not just an animal"; he is something new in evolution, and he has a boundless future...
Long Future. "To the historical specialist, the five or six thousand years of civilization seem intolerably long. But this is a minute interval to the biologist. Man is very young; the human deployment is in an explosive and very early phase. Man is the result of of two thousand million years of biological evolution: he has every prospect of an equal or even greater span of psychosocial evolution of the brain...
...incredibly stupid and not likely to improve the cause of either peace or the security of the United states. It is quite easy for such people to be flittered by certain organizations. They are told they are great. Shall we say for the sake of argument, a great biologist or anatomist or anything you want, is told 'you views must be heard' . . . Politically some of them are naive beyond belief...