Word: deme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Feldstein left aca deme for Washington in the summer of 1982, he entered a foreign world. It was one that did not understand him and one that he sometimes does not seem to understand...
...terms were introduced into the English languages deme. taxon (1950) and cline (1939) became the property of evolutionists. It was a time when Lamarckianism--the belief that acquired traits could be passed on to offspring--was finally discarded. It was a time when experimental biology replaced descriptive biology as the status science. It was a time when the study of anatomy, morphology, ecology was dropped from college curricula because it was not experimental enough, and evolutionary biology almost died here at Harvard. It was, finally, the last chapter of the Darwinian Revolution...
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