Word: darwins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...president of the Association's Zoology Section, Dr. Huxley delivered an address on "Natural Selection and Evolutionary Progress." Natural selection has been subject to much criticism because it does not account for all aspects of evolution and because Darwin gave no emphasis to mutations (sudden changes in the germ plasm). Biologist Huxley sides neither with those who would explain everything by natural selection, nor with extreme proponents of the mutation theory such as Thomas Hunt Morgan. In the Huxley view the two factors complement each other. But: "Natural selection, in fact, though like the mills of God in grinding...
...were first-rate ornithologists. Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, "most widely celebrated unknown man in science," was a brilliant Jack-of-all-sciences. Germany's Goethe was an amateur naturalist whose scientific theories were often ridiculous but almost always fruitful. Author Peattie's biggest hero is an Englishman. Charles Darwin, whose five seasick years aboard H. M. S. Beagle gave him the material for the earthshaking Origin of Species, was "the archetype of the naturalist." Last on the list is Jean Henri Fabre, the patient Provençal peasant whose insect biographies are classics...
Backbone of the exhibit was the Halsey Collection of more than 100 Wedgwood portrait medallions, which Franklin's contemporaries called "cameos." Among the Franklin friends whose likenesses were thus ceramically preserved were Josiah Wedgwood himself, William Penn, William Pitt, Sir Jeffrey Amherst, Erasmus Darwin (Charles's grandfather), Charles James Fox, David Garrick, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Dr. Samuel Johnson, George Washington, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Jean François Marie Arouet (Voltaire) and Catherine II of Russia...
...Galapagos Islands, 500 miles off the coast of Ecuador, were well-known to the old U. S. whalers; Darwin found there one more piece of evidence for his big theory; but modern newspaper readers first became aware of them when William Beebe landed there (1923), reported huge lizards, other peculiar fauna. Two years ago they flashed into the news, with a dramatic mystery no Sunday-feature writer could have bettered. A free-love back-to-nature colony on the little island of Flo-reana, peeped at and reported from time to time by curious yacht-trippers, had come...
...FEATHER CLOAK MURDERS-Darwin and Hildegarde Teilhet-Crime Club ($2). Brave Baron von Kaz (The Ticking Terror Murders) reappears on U. S. territory to unscramble a murderous mess in the Hawaiian Islands. Out of the Baron's prowlings, tantrums, and passion for the beauteous Caryl, Authors Teilhet concoct a tale whose underpinnings are stouter than the average thriller...