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...American economy and environment. But the Democratic rhetoric sometimes fell oddly on the ear. For all the talk of compassion, there was in the Democrats' words and attitudes an insistently selfish sense of entitlement. If, in the Democratic version, the Reagan Republican is a sleek, smug, oblivious Darwinian, the Democrats left themselves open to being regarded as a collection of tribes endlessly brawling over things for themselves. Even the feminists demanding the nomination of a woman vice-presidential candidate acted for reasons that were selfish - as well as perfectly valid and historically necessary...
...unremarkable though sensitive young man who chooses a career in business because, as he explains, it seems romantic. Like so many members of his generation, Caleb senses inviting mystery in the world of pinstripe suits, technical jargon and commanding salaries. From afar, business appears to be a Darwinian struggle which rewards hard work and innovation...
...lore and legend ever precedes them, were responsible for the decimation of the caribou herds of the tundra and offer a justification for lupine slaughter. Mowat found, in stead, that man was the predator, that the wolves, besides being agreeable and intelligent in their domestic ways, performed an invaluable Darwinian function in selecting out the unfit deer. All this Ballard shows in images of great but distinctly unsentimental beauty, stressing the contrast between the blundering ways of man and the sometimes harsh, sometimes subtle efficiency with which a natural environment functions when left to its own devices. As the Mowat...
Biologist Michael Ghiselin: $212,000 in 1981. A specialist in evolutionary biology and author of the acclaimed The Triumph of the Darwinian Method (1969), Ghiselin had resigned from the faculty at the University of California at Berkeley to devote more time to writing and research even before receiving his award. Says he: "I sold my house and was living in draconian parsimony. This award gave me the resources for going places and doing research. I was upset by the award at first-it was hard to deal with after coping with adversity for so many years. But I have...
...interesting that Stephen Jay Gould's theory that "evolution moves not with geological slowness, as Darwin has insisted, but in abrupt fits and starts, interspersed with long periods of no change in species" has put him at odds with the prevailing Darwinian doctrine. Gould's thesis is simply a way of getting around the absence of the necessary fossil record. In fact, evolution, whether through "geological slowness" or "fits and starts," remains a flawed explanation for all of existence...