Word: darwinian
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...These rides subject people to forces and experiences beyond anything that we've ever been exposed to before. And in kind of Darwinian terms, there's no way the body has had time to evolve into this," Fackler says. Baker says the future of rides lies in more interactive innovation. That's fortunate for Disney, which, despite appearances as a result of the rash of tragedies, has never sought to be a competitor in the bigger, faster, scarier race, but rather has staked its claim to the highly immersive, story-telling experience...
During his presidency, a time when corporations were growing ever larger, Roosevelt operated on the principle that the Federal Government was the only institution strong enough to combat their Darwinian tendency to crush competitors and maximize profits by keeping wages low and prices high. In 1912 he was even more adamant...
...facts were blindingly obvious, claimed the precocious Harvard graduate in his book The Naval War of 1812, or the History of the United States Navy During the Last War with Great Britain. First, in the eternal Darwinian struggle that took place between calculating, egoistic nation-states, it was essential for one country--in this case, the U.S. at the close of the 19th century--to avoid "a miserly economy in preparation for war." And for a state as dependent on sea power as America, it was unthinkable that the nation "rely for defence [sic] upon a navy composed partly...
...tetrapods. And indeed, the creature was a little of each, for along with a fish's scales, fangs and gills, it had anatomical features usually found only in animals that spend at least some of their time on land. It is, in short, exactly the sort of transitional animal Darwinian theory predicts, with new physical traits gradually emerging to help it thrive in a novel environment. And it has become scientists' Exhibit A in their long-running debate with creationists and other antievolutionists who have been using the lack of such missing-link organisms to argue that Darwin's theory...
...homosexuality—while based on genuinely benevolent intentions—overlooks the most important cultural means of improving homosexuals’ status in society, and could even be disastrous for the very group that the research intends to benefit. As Americans have witnessed in the incessant questioning of Darwinian evolution, society does not embrace science if the subject matter is entrenched in culture or religion. Even worse for this issue of homosexuality, the science could be damaging in major ways. Firstly, what science might find as a genetic explanation for homosexuality—a mutated chromosome, an enlarged polymorphic...