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Astronomer Gold will have to be careful. People still have not forgiven Darwin for proving that man descended from the lower animals. But men from garbage! In that case, we better watch our step exploring other planets. No telling what we'll start...
...correspondents in 48 countries began gathering the most up-to-date figures for their areas. And along with the figures came the distilled thinking of some of the world's most eminent students of the problem. From England, Correspondent Herman Nickel reported the opposing views of Sir Charles Darwin and London University's Professor J. D. Bernal, Britain's chief exponent of the Marxist view of population. In Tokyo, Bureau Chief Alexander Campbell and Correspondent Frank Iwama sounded out Experts Minoru Taji and Tatsuo Honda of Japan's Population Problems Research Institute...
...Upper Limit. For men like Sir Charles Darwin, who predicts that 20th century man's descendants will look back to this as "the golden age of earth," any suggestion that the population explosion can end in anything other than global misery is pure Micawberism-feckless reliance on the belief that"something will turn up." In fact, even Darwin's stoutest opponents mostly agree with German Expert Winfried Bolls who argues: "We have no time to lose. If we are unable to master the economic and sociological challenge which confronts us, we will be heading for catastrophe." The fundamental...
...Darling. At last week's Chicago meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Harvard's George Gaylord Simpson, vertebrate paleontologist, seized upon the centenary of Darwin's publication of the Origin of Spe cies to summarize today's consensus of scientific thinking on the nature and origin of man. The ancestry of man is still not fully known, he conceded, but he denounced "pussyfooting" about apes in man's family tree...
...Through the Ooze. Scientist Teilhard believes in evolution, not just as a matter of accepting Darwin; evolution for him is the mystical key to existence, the movement of the universe toward God. But God does not appear in Teilhard's book until the very end, and then under a different name...