Word: darwinism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Recently 24 students of the Timiryazeff Agriculture Academy in Moscow got hot under their proletarian collars, wrote a steaming letter to the Commissariat of Agriculture's official journal, which published the letter last week, under the headline: "Chase Formal Genetics from the Universities!" Charles Darwin was okay, the students said in effect, but Mendel and Morgan were way off the party line, if not downright counterrevolutionary. To capitalist hell with the Mendelian...
...Sanctuary of Charles Darwin" will be the subject of a free, public lecture Wednesday evening by Dr. Benjamin Spector, professor of Anatomy, Tufts College, in the Junior Common Room of Winthrop House, at 8 o'clock...
...Holmes of the Breakfast-Table is on Holmes as a forerunner of the moderns-the cool-headed doctor who not only wrote a medical classic on puerperal fever, but occasionally, as in Elsie Venner, anticipated Freud; the science popularizer whose Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table came nearer to Darwin than to the Transcendentalists; the author of The Professor, the awkward but potent anti-Calvinist Babbitt...
...plant called Venus' fly trap, a native of North Carolina, was called by the great Charles Darwin "one of the most wonderful in the world." It has a two-lobed leaf which, while waiting for prey, stands open like a gaping clam shell. From the edges of the leaf two rows of slender spikes project inward like teeth. Two or three sensitive hairs serve as a trigger mechanism. When an insect touches these, the lobes snap together, the spikes meshing to prevent escape. Then the leaf, says Miss Prior, "is converted into a virtual stomach and the glands...
Considered only from the attitude of the scientist, Darwin's theory was comparatively simple, Worcester emphasized. Darwin's principles, somehow or other, immediately exceeded the bounds of a technical treatise and aroused the whole world to inquire into the significance of evolution. When world-renowned authorities conclusively proved that Genesis was thoroughly inaccurate, a disastrous storm of emotion, such as is hard for the modern man to grasp, overran the minds of humanity...