Word: darwins
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...though, Harris's task is even more difficult. Harris poses a theory of cultural history paralleling Darwin's theory of natural selection--that cultural forms either adapt and survive or give way to "fitter" varieties. It is based on considerably more concrete evidence than the pioneering labors of Leakey and his father. Harris has made numerous field trips to Mozambique, India, Ecuador and Brazil in search of ancient cultures. And one can theorize with a fair degree of accuracy about what, say, the Aztecs ate and wore based on the archaelogical remains. These are far more accessible than those...
...evidence of man amidst the fossilized bones of long-extinct animals-and the growing sophistication of geologists and biologists? had all but discredited the Ussher-Lightfoot calculations by 1859, when Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species. Although Darwin did not discuss man in this work, the theory of evolution of species through natural selection suggested that human beings had evolved from some lower form of life. By implying that man was related to apes and monkeys, the great naturalist incurred the derision ?and wrath?of millions round the world. "Descended from apes!'' exclaimed the wife...
...prayers were not answered. No less a scientist than Biologist Thomas Henry Huxley further espoused the idea in his 1863 Man's Place in Nature. Darwin won many new converts to his concept in 1871 with the publication of The Descent of Man. Most convincing of all, the fossil record continued to reveal that man had not always existed in his present form. That more primitive men might once have walked the earth was suggested when a skull was found at Gibraltar in 1848 that was more evolved than the skulls of apes but less so than that of modern...
...inflammation. Some doctors also implicate bodily chemicals, notably histamine and serotonin. Investigators at Baylor University have even reported that over a prolonged period of time migraines may damage some brain cells?apparently without any noticeable mental impairment. Migraine sufferers have included such intellectual stalwarts as Jefferson, Freud, Nietzsche and Darwin. Lewis Carroll is thought to have conceived the more bizarre scenes in his Alice's Adventures in Wonderland during the hallucinatory "auras"?flashing of lights before the eyes ?that often precede the headaches...
Project leaders raise the consciousness of members by citing famous stutterers, among them Moses, Demosthenes, Darwin and Maugham. Members also learn about well-known "closet cases" who go through elaborate rituals and word substitutions in public to conceal their affliction. To the N.S.P., trying to cover up a stammer is bad; the handicap must be announced frankly and faced...