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Charles Darwin propounded the doctrine that evolution occurs by natural selection, in which some individuals happen, by chance combination of inherited characteristics, to be better adapted to their environment than others-"survival of the fittest." Geneticists later concluded that inheritance was locked in a set of genes that usually bred true, but once in a while spontaneously "mutated" to produce a new characteristic that thereafter bred true and thus produced evolution's changes. This knowledge undercut the Lamarckian concept-named for Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck (1744-1829)-that characteristics could be acquired in response...
...Prime Minister, he has a very fair chance of getting somewhere himself. Indeed, if he shares his father's genius, as did the younger Pitt, he may become Prime Minister himself. But if, like Horace Walpole, he is as waspishly well-bred as his father was openhanded and bluff, he doubtless does better to observe than participate. As the great Sir Robert's son, Horace Walpole had a ubiquitous entree as well as a tireless eye and the great world's attentive ear. His letters, the most diverting in all English literature, provide a lasting mirror...
After 45 years of riding the neighborhood circuits, the pure-bred Hollywood hay-burner sure is a sorry hunk of horseflesh. But this time, Director Michael Curtiz gives the critter a tolerable tricky ride. He rowels out a few bursts of speed, and when there's nothing left but wheezes he plays them for horse laughs...
...over the eternal triangle-man, guilt and God-The Complaisant Lover will be a qualified disappointment. There is not a guilt-edged line or character in the play. On its own frothy comedy terms, it is a qualified success. Like most British drawing-room comedies, Lover is so well-bred as to seem overbred emotionally. The talk is good, but at times one also wishes it was either straighter or cleverer. While the plot is more piquant than the dialogue, a fine cast is more totally convincing than the plot...
...spoken by men and women; for a man to use a female word when talking to other men was extremely bad manners. So Ishi masculinized all English words that sounded female to him. "Hat" became "hatna" and "sheep" became "sheepna," both of them proper enough words for any well-bred male Yahi...