Word: evolutionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gould entered the spotlight with his theories of geology and human evolution. Nozick is a widely read civil libertarian.
But Huchre, a director of the Baltimore-based project, says that the device will be used mainly to examine known objects more closely and will have little effect on the big bang theory. "It's going to do cosmology in the small sense," he says. Joseph Silk of the University...
The arboretum also has faculty studying rain forests and the evolution of their complex biological makeup. Cook says he wants to "focus on work at the arboretum on biodiversity and the loss of rain forests. We should be supporting efforts by various departments more and using our resources more to...
To complicate matters, between the segments of DNA that represent genes are endless stretches of code letters that seem to spell out only genetic gibberish. Geneticists once thought most of the unintelligible stuff was "junk DNA" -- useless sequences of code letters that accidentally developed during evolution and were not discarded...
Even to label genes as defective can be dangerous. In the 19th century new discoveries about heredity and evolution gave rise to the eugenics movement -- a misguided pseudo science whose followers thought that undesirable traits should be systematically purged from the human gene pool. Believers ranged from the American eugenicists...