Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chicago Fair. To study the effects of heredity and environment, Professor Newman invited to the Chicago World's Fair ten pairs of identical twins who had been separated since infancy. In some cases they had not even met since childhood. Many had lived strikingly similar lives. "Edwin" and "Fred...
Wilson finds the starting point of socialist historical thinking in a little-known book-Principles of a New Science Dealing with the Nature of Nations, Through Which Are Shown Also New Principles of the Natural Law of Peoples. The author was an obscure, cranky, 18th-Century Neapolitan, Giovanni Battista Vico...
Unintentionally significant is the scene in which Danny makes a general confession of all his young life's trespasses, receives absolution from the priest. Omniscient Oswald Spengler called autobiography a modern substitute for auricular confession. James T. Farrell has been pouring out powerful, bitter autobiographical tales for eleven years...
Venus is the nearest of the major planets to Earth and almost the same size. Its diameter is 7,700 miles against Earth's 7,927 miles. Venus has a dense atmosphere; its surface is constantly veiled by clouds. But the spectroscope discloses that Venus' atmosphere is largely...
Heredity & Environment. There is no evidence that any racial group or social class has more native intelligence than any other. There are more variations in heredity among individuals of a group than among any social or racial groups. Children tend to be like their parents in hereditary capacity; if their...