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...Biologist Julian Huxley, agreeing with none of them, asked leave to reply and does so in the December FORTUNE. His reply directly challenges those who try philosophically to reconcile science and religion. Presenting a coherent philosophy of man's object in life, he makes the flat assertions that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Huxley Ends a Truce | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

There was also his seven-foot, simian, pink alabaster Adam, sometimes referred to as "a biologist's nightmare" or "three tons of ugliness." An Australian gold miner bought Adam for $35,000. For like Epstein notoriety, Epstein prices have soared steadily upward. In each esthetic crisis Sculptor Epstein has remained cosmically bland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Epstein Epic | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

...About 115 to 120 boys are conceived for every 100 girls, but normally about 50% more male embryos are lost in miscarriages than female. Fewer children are born in wartime,* especially-suggests Biologist Gunner Dahlberg of Sweden's great Upsala University-to hard-working women, who are most likely to suffer miscarriages. This displacement is enough, he believes, to affect the boy-girl ratio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Does War Breed Boys? | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

...trainmen, takes her to spend a howling few days at the Wallace Military Institute. There are love complications with the Major's financée Pamela (Rita Johnson), who wants to keep him out of active service, and with her sister Lucy (Diana Lynn), a cold-eved little biologist, who wants to get him in. Ginger helps Lucy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 28, 1942 | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

What Then Shall We Do? This question Biologist Wells answers with another questionקs Homo Tewler born dumb or is he made dumb? Is Tewleremia hereditary or environmental? If the former, the end of man (thanks to the appalling power of human ingenuity) is not far off Another war or two will do it, if this one fails. But if, as Wells believes, Homo Tewler is a bundle of terribly conditioned reflexes, then he is redeemable. First however, he must discard his mental and social shackles, do the two things he is conditioned never to do: listen to reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tewleremia | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

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