Word: darwins
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...part of the process which ultimately leads to the truth and a more accurate conception of the universe. Maybe so. But academics also have a responsibility to avoid abusing the faith people put in them. They should not intentionally distort knowledge. And didn't distortions of Darwin's theory of "survival of the fittest" and belief in inherent genetic inferiority lead once to the death of six million Jews...
...long after protein first appeared. Then how, without the complex ribosome "factories," was primitive protein produced? Last week, in a report published in the journal Origin of Life, a team of molecular biologists suggested an answer. If the hypothesis is correct, says one of the researchers, it could alter Darwin's theory of natural selection and current concepts of genetic engineering...
...Updating Darwin. Pieczenik believes there is further significance in the DNA patterns he discovered. In his view, the constraints suggest that a process of natural selection occurs at the molecular level long before organisms develop. If this is true, some additions will have to be made to the Darwinian theory that natural selection takes place only after the organism is formed and begins adapting to the world around it. That notion does not seem to bother Pieczenik. "What this means," he says, "is that the DNA sequences exist to protect themselves and their own information...
...author animates dreary economics lessons with did-you-know facts. For example it was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase "survival of the fittest." The assembly line was not invented by Henry Ford but by an anonymous Frenchman who increased pin production tenfold by instituting the division of labor at his factory. Paper money is of pure Yankee lineage. When Massachusetts soldiers returned from action in the French and Indian War in 1690 they were paid not in coin but in promissory notes that could be traded for goods. The perverse alchemy by which governments turned gold...
...rounds chronicled by Darwin will not come back but in Mostly Golf we at least get a vivid if all too fleeting glimpse of the pageantry and splendor that belonged to the likes of James Braid, Bobby Jones, the olive-skinned Gene Sarazen with his Cheshire Cat grin, and "the Haig" with his oriental eyelids and brilliantined hair bestriding the fairways of Muirfield. For as the Scotch have been wont to say since those colorful days of James II: they were all "grand gowfers a', nane better...