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...coverage of the 1925 Scopes "monkey" trial, H. L. Mencken mercilessly shredded the arguments of Fundamentalist William Jennings Bryan, who served as a special prosecutor against the teacher of Darwin's theory. Wrote Mencken: "The mountebank Bryan, parading the streets in his seersucker coat, is pointed out to sucklings as the greatest man since Abraham." Was such reporting an attempt to influence the outcome of the trial...
...true. He's the most-read economist of all time. Not even Adam Smith has been read as much." Galbraith, adds Economist James Warburg, "is the most outstanding explorer of economics since Keynes." There are those, in fact, who believe that while John Maynard Keynes was the Darwin of modern economics, Galbraith will some day be considered the Huxley...
...years since Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species exploded in the midst of the square Victorian scene. Man's thoughts about man have not been the same since. Is he in truth just a little lower than the angels? Or did he evolve as just another species of animal? It seems like an old-fashioned question, but it still preoccupies poets, theologians, scientists and-emphatically-naturalists, whose books on primates seem to be crowding each other to get on the publishers' lists...
Higher on Darwin's family tree And join in man's society. Then some gifted gibbon may Be able in his apish way To peer at Cape Canaveral And write a new Decline and Fall...
Aldabra, with only a tiny human colony on one of its islands, is to scientists a unique natural laboratory for the study of evolution; as early as 1874, Charles Darwin fought successfully to keep the atoll unsullied by man. Now British scientists once again have to fight for Aldabra. The opposing force: Her Majesty's Defense Ministry, which late last year announced that Britain was weighing the possibility of developing the island as a major airbase and satellite tracking station in cooperation with...