Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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And sooner or later, though he claims there is no connection between the two interests, Hoadley gets to talking about fishing--honest-to-goodness fly fishing, "as a sporting proposition and not a laboratory experiment." But even here, he is always the scientific naturalist. He would never be found telling...
That color changes with environment is strikingly illustrated by the varieties of U.S. horned toads. A brightly splotched variety lives in Arizona's Painted Desert, a drab single-toned variety on the drab soil of Oregon, a white variety on the white alkali soil of the Amargosa Desert, a...
Girded like Siegfrieds, rabid Nazis had labeled evolution a British-Plutocratic-Jewish-Materialist theory. They abused it as "the theory of universal racelessness," a standing menace to Nazi racial dogma (Rasselehre). In Natur & Kultur, one Otto Muck recognized what democratic scientists had long pointed out, that "racial theory and evolutionary...
"Marx took up the theme in the next higher register. History - man's history -was the record of dialectically competing classes whose motives were as simply biological as those found in Darwin. Earning a living and fighting those who make it hard were the two forces that explained the...
"There is," Sanderson also observes, "a vague but universal presumption that wild animals in their natural environment do not suffer from diseases such as afflict ourselves and our domestic animals." Dissecting warm specimens in the jungle, instead of pickled specimens in a laboratory, he found a startling incidence of internal...