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Genesis is another potentially sore spot for Christians. If there's one thing most non-Christians at Harvard hold sacred, it's Darwin. Yet "born again" Christians have doubts. Donovan says the literal truth of the Adam and Eve story doesn't matter. "What matters is that man took his own path and departed from God." This is the source of the world's current misery...
...Bernard Darwin, the foremost golf writer of the period, had made one of his rare transatlantic passages to report the maiden Walker Cup Match for The London Times. When the captain of the British squad, Robert Harris, was sidelined by illness, the irrepressible Darwin stepped into the breach and won his singles match...
Many recent theorists?such as Nobel-prizewinning Ethologist Konrad Lorenz and Scots Biologist V.C. Wynne-Edwards?have focused on the group or species as the primary unit of selection. Darwin wrote that it was the individual organism. But Sociobiologists believe it is the genes themselves that conduct the life-or-death evolutionary struggle. This gene-based view of life is compatible with a finding made independently by researchers in a widely divergent branch of science. Rutgers Biochemist George Pieczenik has discovered patterns in DNA coding that he sees as evidence of selection occurring at the molecular level (TIME, April...
...sociobiology did not arise from molecular studies but as an answer to a century-old gap in Darwinian theory: Darwin could not fully explain why some organisms help other members of their species. His theory held that every organism fights for its own survival and chance to reproduce, not that of others. Since altruistic behavior reduces an organism's chances to survive, evolution should be expected to breed it out of all species. Still, some birds risk their lives for the flock by crying out to warn of the presence of a predator?thus chancing attracting the attention...
...time, Trivers knew little about evolution and nothing at all about biology, but he plunged into the literature and sought out mentors. "Once I learned what natural selection was," he says, "it was clear that for one hundred years since Darwin, almost no work had been done in applying Darwin's reasoning to social behavior. It was an incredible opportunity to be able to move into this enormous vacuum...