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...dragonlike iguanas and birds so fearless that they ignore the approach of a human. Old Spanish explorers called them Las Islas Encantadas (the bewitched or enchanted islands). It was here, among the exotic flora and fauna of the isolated islands, notably their startlingly varied finches, that the young Charles Darwin found the key evidence for his theory of evolution. Yet these unique biological enclaves, long despoiled by pirates and passing sailors, are still under attack. Thousands of peering, prodding, picture-taking tourists now visit the Galápagos annually, at considerable risk to the islands' frail ecology. To assess...
Watson's citation reads: Precocious investigator, uninhibited author, inspiring teacher: Harvard celebrates a modern biological discovery that ranks with those of Darwin and Mendel, and heralds as new and revolutionary era in the life sciences...
Somehow, J. Wyatt Emmerich managed to do it all ("Darwin Vulgarized," 13 April...
...would like to be fair in my appraisal of the editorial comment Lectures "Darwin Vulgarized" found on page 2 of The Crimson, 13 April 1978. I attended the lecture in question. And as a student of anthropology and psychology I have been studying these subjects for over ten years and have been learning the literature and model of "sociobiology" for the past three years--three more years, I would propose, than J. Wyatt Emmerich, author of the editorial, has been studying this new and thought-provoking paradigm of social science...
...proceeding with the cloning, Rorvik and his scientist cronies have made the decisions and they certainly have not been all-knowing nor all-wise. The very types of abuses and unethical procedure which Rorvik cites as dangers of cloning are prevalent in Darwin's work and are likely to happen again as long as methods are not open to scrutiny by the public and by colleagues. For example, Rorvik's claim in the book that a millionaire without an heir can be considered a suitable subject for cloning is, at the very least, questionable...