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...they? That raises an interesting Darwinian problem: Which group is stronger; which is fitter? The young who demonstrated their moral energy?as well as their social clout, often enough?by avoiding the draft, by staying in college or heading across to Canada? Or the so-called suckers who got caught in the draft? (Were they stupid? Patriotic? Defenseless?) Those suckers passed through a physical and moral test that the others (however principled their refusal) will never know...
Despite all this lethal ingenuity, the only really good news from the bug battlefront is that most healthy trees can survive two or three onslaughts. Indeed, foresters like to point out that the moths often strengthen the woodland by eliminating sickly specimens. But such Darwinian reassurances are little comfort to suburbanites worried about a favorite elm or oak. By now, about all they can do is keep the tree as healthy as possible -faithful watering and feeding help -gather up and destroy every clutch of moth eggs in sight, and wait until next year. -By Frederic Golden. Reported by Anne...
...rapidly and how resources could be used better. His examination of mankind's history is enticing often bordering of fantasy. Yet it is unconvincing. Certain principles do not fit into his major argument, but seem to be included simply for their originality or spice. For example. Fuller contradicts the Darwinian theory that simple organisms evolved into complex ones. Fuller speculates that "South Sea-atoll, lagoon-frolicking male and female human swimmers gradually inbred pairs of underwater swimmers who held their breath in their lungs for every-longer periods. and after many in-breedings of largest lungers and as many outbreedings...
...time when experimental biology replaced descriptive biology as the status science. It was a time when the study of anatomy, morphology, ecology was dropped from college curricula because it was not experimental enough, and evolutionary biology almost died here at Harvard. It was, finally, the last chapter of the Darwinian Revolution...
...Upright, females' hands were free to care for infants; males could carry food. The roots of pair bonding were set; the old pattern of annual random coupling was obsolete. This amalgam of nature and nurture brought an endless mating season, happier hominids and, of course, more children-the Darwinian key to survival. Lucy and Co. may have been smaller and weaker than many of the animals they encountered, but when it came to reproducing, they were champions. That, suggest the authors, is why they and their kind prevailed. And it is why their all-too-human descendants are upright...