Word: darwinian
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Thus, by the classic Darwinian process of evolution by natural selection, the farther north man went, the more completely did the light-skinned survive and the dark-skinned...
...Brecht, who had never been to this country, Chicago suggested a dissipated, Darwinian atmosphere retaining traces of the then-recent Wild West. It epitomized the ruthless urban machine that consumed the poor, trying their sensitivity and testing their capacity for suffering. Chicago also illustrated for the playwright the intense loneliness of the human condition: Conversations take on the futile quality of dual soliloquys...
...Darwinian delights of coeducation and rising college-entrance standards is that the smartest 10% of young Americans are now thrown to gether on campuses at the most susceptible age for romance and marriage...
...empty out, transfusions of fresh blood poured in off the street. Two children in a red dump truck wove in and out of the forest of legs. A middle-aged businessman sat twiddling his thumbs as he stared off into space, waiting for his wife to emerge from the Darwinian struggle...
...publications. Part of its attraction is its comfortable familiarity. But like men's clothes it is continually changing. Darwin taught us that evolution is the best kind of change to breed stayers." Since the Times has already proved its own inbred capacity for staying, we gratefully acknowledge its Darwinian tribute to our "powerful adaptability," its judgment that at age 40 we are "stimulatingly alive" and ready for a long future...