Word: darwins
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Evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr, often called the “Darwin of the 20th century,” died on Feb. 3 at his retirement community in Bedford, Mass...
...down in long passages that describe in loving (and graphic) detail the procedures of brain surgery. Work itself is a form of heroism in this book. So is love. So is a dry-eyed realism about our fates. McEwan and Perowne are both fond of quoting Charles Darwin: "There is a grandeur in this view of life." There's a grandeur in Saturday...
...made against opponents of stem cell research are really quite beside the point. Romney does not seek to limit “scientific inquiry” in its entirety, but rather an extremely specific and controversial part of it. Romney is not interested in preventing kids from learning about Darwin in high school biology, nor is he interested in limiting the nuclear physics taking place at MIT. He does not even seek to stop researchers from studying and utilizing human embryos. What he in fact seeks to do is prevent the creation of a human life with the express intention...
...jungle, not the law of heaven - in spurning a very young, attractive woman for a plainer specimen one year his senior, to whom he's stayed faithful, by all appearances, until this very day. God may or may not approve of these decisions, but they go against everything Darwin ever stood...
After receiving his doctorate, he embarked on research expeditions through New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, where he was able to prove what Darwin did not—that new species arise from the geographical isolation of populations. This led to his definition of species as “an interbreeding population that cannot breed with other groups,” the press release said...