Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That chapter began in the bloody 1930s when Lysenko, a young plant breeder from the Ukraine, burst onto the Soviet scientific scene with a beguiling claim: that the inheritance of physical characteristics could be manipulated in plants by their environment. It was an idea totally at odds with modern genetics...
Much of Burt's reputation rested on his prominent role in the debate about heredity and intelligence. His studies of identical twins who grew up apart indicated that heredity-rather than environment-explains most of the differences in IQ scores. But shortly before Burt's death in 1971...
John P. Reardon '60, associate dean of admissions who moonlights as a Pennypacker proctor, attributes the change in attitude to a greater degree of communication among the dorm's residents. "It's much different from last year, when some people on the floor didn't even know each other's...
Former residents generally shake their heads philosophically when asked about the "new Pennypacker." Samuel A. Bern '79, who last year fled the dorm to the co-ed environment of South House, says his decision would probably have been different this year. "The facilities weren't so bad," he says, and...
The book reads at times like a sort of "Zen and the Art of House-Building," as when Cole says, "Getting your head in shape is the first and most important construction project in any home-building plan." But overall it is concrete. It deals in ample detail with all...