Word: darwins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...waste of water filled with hidden reefs, treacherous winds and currents, Author Van Loon's book is no chart. His concern is with the explorers of this vast, lonely, misnamed ocean - from prehistoric Polynesian vikings and the Bounty's Captain Bligh, of open-boat fame, to Charles Darwin, who spent four highly uncomfortable years among its atolls, pondering the theory of the survival of the fittest, between bouts of seasickness aboard H. M. S. Beagle...
...months Dr. Tilney taught himself to scribble with his left hand, in six months wrote the entire manuscript of a two-volume masterpiece, The Brain from Ape to Man. When it was published in 1928, many scientists acclaimed it as the finest piece of evolutionary writing since Darwin...
...expedition, sponsored by the Royal Society, was established to study the many varieties of finches found on these islands, and nowhere else. The birds had been studied by Darwin, and other scientists, to determine whether they were prehistoric types, or merely unusual hybrids. This expedition, after making a detailed study of the behavior of the birds, concluded that they were an entirely separate species...
...BROKEN FACE MURDERS-Darwin & Hildegarde Teilhet - Crime Club ($2). The Baron von Kaz and his miraculous green umbrella are back, this time with a bride. Before the honeymoon in California's hills can get properly started, the honeymoon cottage becomes a shambles. Both the Baron and the reader get a good run for their money...
Still puzzled by this eternal dispute are historically minded laymen, who for every mad genius can cite a sweet-tempered family man like Einstein or Darwin, a sunny soul like Spinoza, an Olympian spirit like Goethe. They can complain, and do, that psychiatrists have never made clear the difference, if any, between scientific and artistic talent. Nor have the doctors explained whether a neurotic is: 1) a long-fingered person of "artistic temperament"; 2) a crank who looks under the bed every night or constantly washes his hands; or 3) a robust grappler with convention...