Word: darwinian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Darwinian world, sex, love and happiness come down to sex," Martin said. "Monogamy is disadvantageous [to survival] in most situations...
...board -- everyone from international lenders to the Communist opposition is skeptical. "It's like having 1,000 people in a room with no air, and then throwing in a bottle of oxygen with enough for three or four people and saying work it out among yourselves," says Meier. The Darwinian culling of the banking sector has limited appeal to anyone except Moscow's oligarchs, who hope to salvage some of their wealth. Foreign bankers have little enthusiasm for the plan -- besides doubts over its efficacy, it's a nonstarter without another infusion of Western billions...
...weekends ago when hordes of people descended upon the city for the Fourth of July festivities. Washington, D.C., is a city of contradictions, and its citizens are no different. While celebrating the democratic ideals of liberty and justice for all, the celebration itself was much more akin to a Darwinian struggle for the basic necessities of life...
Then the fireworks finished, and the true Darwinian struggle began. A crowd the size of most cities began to search for a way home. The Metro stops became clogged with celebrants patriotically pushing and shoving to squeeze into the overcrowded trains. Buses were no better. The huge crowds shut down the nearby streets as men, women and children, young and old alike, ran after taxis and buses, even offering money to people with extra space in their cars...
...anthropologist Laura Betzig, surveying these early civilizations, has rendered the Darwinian opinion that politics has often been "little more than reproductive competition"--men using power to better spread their genes. The Aztec King Nezahualpilli had more than 100 children, as did Ramses II of Egypt...