Word: darwinism
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Also, they are relying on Danny Darwin and Doug Drabek. Did they watch any Astros games last year...
Although Wilmut received his doctorate from Darwin College at Cambridge, his contributions to cloning may give a whole new meaning to Darwin's famous phrase, "the survival of the fittest...
...Darwin is named fourth in the book," said Agassiz Professor of Zoology Emeritus Ernst Mayr, who was ranked 65th. "That already is too low. He has changed thinking more than Einstein. There are probably 100 other scientists that could have been chosen instead. [Simmons] made his judgments, and as a human, his judgment is faulty...
These Harvard professors followed giants in science such as Isaac Newton, who was ranked first, Albert Einstein at second and Charles Darwin at fourth, according to the Harvard Gazette...
Certainly, as even Williams stresses, our moral sentiments have lots of upside, including a heartening plasticity. They can be deployed less self-servingly than they were "designed" to be deployed. Darwin himself often felt pangs of concern about the plight of slaves, even though there were none in England to reciprocate his empathy. And consider the flush of compassion we feel upon witnessing, via TV, famine that is a hemisphere away. When moved by such images to donate money or canned goods--the rough opposite of greed and gluttony--we are in some Darwinian sense "misusing" our equipment of reciprocal...