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...subject of man as an animal is older than Darwin. But to Darwin's insights into man's evolution, the new approach is adding radical new dimensions. It rejects the view that biology has nothing to do with behavior, and proposes the hypothesis that culture itself has a biological basis. "What we are saying," says Fox, "is that it is highly probable that the species is predisposed to behave in certain ways and that these ways are probably more numerous and specific than has been thought...
...behalf of conservation. The textual message is sorely understated, but the incomparable color photography and reproduction make the point emphatically. The wildlife and sheer natural beauty of the Galapagos Islands (600 miles off the coast of Ecuador) inspired Herman Melville, who is quoted in the text, and Charles Darwin, who found in the ecology there the laws of natural selection that led to Origin of Species. It is to be hoped that Eliot Porter's fine pictures will not conjure up thoughts of a Galapagos Hilton...
...performance as William Jennings Bryan in the movie Inherit the Wind, a reenactment of the 1925 Scopes "monkey trial." That classic courtroom confrontation seemed to come from another era, a benighted past when a 24-year-old substitute biology teacher named John T. Scopes was actually indicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in a Tennessee schoolroom. But that era was not so distant after...
...early Republic as an ideal state from which America had subsequently declined. For them the new democratic institutions established between 1776 and 1787 had been born of European theory, and flourished in America only with the help of Divine Providence. The new, progressive historians, aware of Marx and Darwin and stirred by the belief that history must be both dynamic and toughly realistic, read American history in radically different ways...
...PAMELA HALSE Darwin, Australia