Word: evolutionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Freeman concludes his book asserting that the case of Samoa shows that neither biological nor cultural determinism is unacceptable on its own and that both must be considered in accounting for human behavior. He advocates the currently popular "view of human evolution in which the genetic and exogenetic are distinct...
At 11 a.m. Bergvall attends a course in modern African history that she is auditing. The class is fairly typical undergraduate survey lecture sprinkled with a few older students. Students take notes silently as the professor discusses the evolution of apartheid policies in South Africa.
When he wrote Peer Gyntin 1867, Ibsen did not dream that his epic poem would ever be performed onstage. Uncut, it contains five acts and 38 scenes. Its panoramic sweep embraces four continents: Europe, Africa, North America and Asia. The action unfolds on mountain crests and sun-bleached deserts, within...
There isn't much headroom for evolution. In an explanation that, ironically could be viewed as Marxist. Goldman contends that the authoritarian nature of the economic system dictates the political system's constraints. Even Soviet leaders are provided little space in which to maneuver or more accurately incentive to effect...
The Tuskegee Study had nothing to do with treatment. No new drugs were tested; neither was any effort made to establish the efficacy of old forms of treatment. It was a non-therapeutic experiment, aimed at compiling data on the effects of the spontaneous evolution of syphilis on Black males...