Word: darwins
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Trinkaus and Trivers get a trip to Darwin...
...Darwin, in spite of his Victorian-era swing, was a leading amateur himself. He played in the 1921 British amateur in a field which included a contingent of eight Americans, one of whom was Bobby Jones. The British, who still dominated the game, were afraid one of the fine, young American golfers would snatch the AMateur crown...
...Americans were eventually eliminated except Paul Hunter and Freddy Wright. It was left up to Darwin to defeat Hunter in the fifth round and Wright in the sixth. The night after knocking out Wright, Darwin was accosted on the street by a stranger who had been staring at him from a distance. The stranger in an emotion-choked voice thundered, "Sir, I would like to thank you for the way in which you saved your country...
...fact, he fears, she was very much in evidence at the annual American Anthropological Association meeting in Washington, where the subject of angry debate was the divisive new discipline of sociobiology and its chief spokesman Edward O. Wilson. The bishop's wife, says Konner, "did not like what Darwin said, what Marx and Engels said, what Freud said, and now she does not like what Wilson says: they all make her feel 'lower...
Male Dominance. Wilson, a Harvard zoologist, may not yet have achieved the stature of a Darwin, a Marx or a Freud. But he and his colleagues are sending the same kind of shock waves through the academic community. Sociobiology is the study of the biological basis for social behavior in every species; its practitioners believe that some-and perhaps much-of human behavior is genetically determined. It is not a message that many academics want to hear. Says Harvard's Richard Lewontin, an evolutionary biologist: "This is fundamentally a very conservative world view, which serves the very important function...