Word: darwinism
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...theories of Malthus and Darwin, he said, gave man the idea that he was reproducing himself faster than technology could raise production, and that life was a matter of the "survival of the fittest" a "you-or-me" question. The fundamental mandate of political leaders was to assure that "it wasn't their country that went down." Wars became the order...
...outlines were tremendous and all the details sordid." Certainly, in Victorian England, island swelled into Empire, man's origins retreated from Adam to ape, man's progress advanced to antitoxins and turbines. But certainly, too, there was a precipitous drop from Disraeli to pestilent drains or from Darwin to shivering streetwalkers. Characteristically, it was an age of gaslight, which lighted the dark with a baleful glare, but produced furtive, disquieting shadows...
...Boyda, tackle Darwin Wile, and guard Bill Swinford, the whole left side of the Crimson's powerful forward wall, were three of the four Ivy League players listed in the poll. The fourth was Yale's center, Matt Black...
Gregg Riley of Princeton, Bill Taylor of Harvard and Tom Haggerty of Columbia, the League's top runner and scorer, would fill out the mythical Ivy Lackfield. On the line would be ends Dave Usher of Dartmouth and Bob Boyda of Harvard; tackles Darwin Wile of Harvard and Bob Asack of Columbia; guards Bill Swinford of Harvard and Bill Tragakis of Dartmouth; and center Leo Black of Columbia...
...Charles Darwin propounded the doctrine that evolution occurs by natural selection, in which some individuals happen, by chance combination of inherited characteristics, to be better adapted to their environment than others-"survival of the fittest." Geneticists later concluded that inheritance was locked in a set of genes that usually bred true, but once in a while spontaneously "mutated" to produce a new characteristic that thereafter bred true and thus produced evolution's changes. This knowledge undercut the Lamarckian concept-named for Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck (1744-1829)-that characteristics could be acquired in response...