Word: environmentally
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WILSON ENTERED a longstanding intellectual debate when he published Sociobiology: the "Nature vs. Nurture" controversy. This dispute in its extreme form, pits the idea of human destiny determined solely by genes against the notion that environment molds the individual with the genetic constitution having only trivial effects. Most participants in...
THERE ARE THREE other attacks often levelled at Wilson's theory. The first is largely philosophical and indicts sociobiology only indirectly as part of a larger conspiracy. This attack objects to the sociobiology stance which insists that humans are passive vehicles for either our genes or our environment. Strongly anti...
Doig, like Swan, came west to Puget Sound. Raised on a rough succession of sheep and cattle ranches in Montana's high country and in those stark, one-street towns with a post office, filling-station, store, and three saloons, he felt drawn farther west--to Seattle with its more...
At the same time, the flatness of the walls and screens-the boxes were shallow, and Nevelson rarely tried to make sculpture-in-the-round-gave them a great depth of pictorial suggestion. One seemed to be looking not at an explicit sculptural fact but at a dark reef of...
Nevelson was not, of course, the first artist to do this: her forerunner in the art of reclamation was German Dadaist Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948), who made thousands of collages from street refuse. When the sculptor Jean Arp saw Nevelson's great black environment Sky Cathedral in 1958, he...