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...second or third largest producer in the world." But as with the OPEC nations, the country is husbanding its resources by holding back production. Farther down in South America, efforts are now being concentrated offshore, with Exxon and Shell preparing to drill around Tierra Del Fuego, where Charles Darwin once sailed on the H.M.S. Beagle, and the Falkland Islands. A promising area offshore of the heavy oil deposits of Lake Maracaibo is not being tapped because both Venezuela and Colombia claim the region. Politics also hinders Brazil's explorations. The government has invited the oil majors...
Having lived mainly a life of the mind, Charles Darwin is a difficult subject for popular biography. After five years aboard H.M.S. Beagle, he married Josiah Wedgwood's daughter, moved to the country and spent his days in study, writing, fathering children and improving his homestead. He never had money worries, did not drink, gamble or chase women. All he did was change mankind's image of itself. It was hardly a rush to judgment. For 17 years he had labored on his book in the study of a country house at Down, despite fits of nausea, depression...
Irving Stone (Lust for Life, The Agony and the Ecstasy) steers a safe and steady course through Darwin's life. Cannily, he sticks to the intellectual shallows and piles up the domestic details. It is a stolid, readable job in which the author at tempts to dramatize the excitement of scientific discovery with fictionalized dia logue and lines like "He felt he was on to something . . . important." That he was, but somehow Irving's Origin of Charles does not seem up to Darwin's Origin of Species...
...question has daunted anthropologists ever since 1871, when Charles Darwin grappled with it in his The Descent of Man. How did the puny early ancestor of modern man defend himself against predators? More than 3½ million years ago, he stood only 120 cm to 140 cm (48 in. to 56 in.), too short to wield a heavy club effectively. For another million years or so, his brain was not developed enough to conceive of fashioning stone weapons. Yet despite the presence of far more powerful four-legged adversaries on the African savannas, he survived. Now a Dutch zoologist, Adriaan...
...Wasn't he chased out of heaven by Marx, banished to the unconscious by Freud and announced by Nietzsche to be deceased? Did not Darwin drive him out of the empirical world? Well, not entirely. In a quiet revolution in thought and argument that hardly anyone could have foreseen only two decades ago, God is making a comeback. Most intriguingly, this is happening not among theologians or ordinary believers-most of whom never accepted for a moment that he was in any serious trouble-but in the crisp, intellectual circles of academic philosophers, where the consensus had long banished...