Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Soviet theory that environment shapes most human qualities and the Nazi theory of inherited racial supremacy both "appear to be nonsense," according to a scientist who has produced cleft palate, misshapen brains and many other deformities in mice.
Nearly every physical deformity found at birth appears to have many causes, some inherited, others experienced in the embryo, Dr. Theodore H. Ingalls, associate professor of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health, said last night. "Environment and heredity are to be appraised as overlapping influences, with the first dominating...
He stopped into the 250-year-old controversy on heredity versus environment after four years of research on deformities in mice caused by injury to the embryo, and after studies of many defective children and their mothers at five Boston hospitals.
His device is to center the emotional interest of the picture on the story of a family of Displaced Persons arriving from Europe into the environment of the West End.
Unlike documentaries such as "The River," which reported the damage from a Mississippi River flood. Cron attempts to create a mythological cycle which is emotionally and psychologically connected with his audience. The story of the D.P.'s first day and a half, of their attempts to imitate those around them...