Word: darwinism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...explained only by assuming that some higher intelligence had a hand in designing it. Over the past several years, pitched battles have been fought in school boards in Ohio, Kansas, Georgia and Montana and, just weeks ago, in Dover County, Pa., over whether to give intelligent design and Darwin's theory of evolution equal time in classrooms...
...hesitate to refer to current political events at times throughout his reading, at one point spontaneously including “our current president” into a part of the introduction he read from which mentioned those who “reject what they know of Marx, Darwin, and Freud...
...Flores. But while examples of such shrinkage had been found in elephants, hippos and deer, it was unheard of in higher primates. "It shows that hominids are following the same evolutionary and ecological rules as other mammals," says paleontologist Tim White of the University of California, Berkeley. "Wallace and Darwin would have been delighted...
...let’s take a cue from Darwin. We must let the system work not through party politics or interest group wrangling but through good kids with good ideas competing for votes. The council isn’t running a country—it’s running a group fundamentally interested in improving student life. We don’t need parties or interest lobbying. We must let the independent, proactive candidates become our independent, proactive council members...
...GROWTH, OF DISEASE AND AGING ... As the basic ingredient of the genes in the cells of all living organisms, DNA is truly the master molecule of life. [The discovery] was one of the great events in science, comparable to the splitting of the atom or the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species...