Word: evolutionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mata was a psychotherapist before she left the U.S. in 1969 for India, to pursue her spiritual evolution more intensively. She spent seven years there, studying under many teachers and traveling extensively until she discovered her role in the world.
He predicted "a slow evolution of bipartisan politics"--which the convicted dissidents advocated---adding that "the process of change could be expected to go on for a matter of decades, moving only very slowly."
The question has daunted anthropologists ever since 1871, when Charles Darwin grappled with it in his The Descent of Man. How did the puny early ancestor of modern man defend himself against predators? More than 3½ million years ago, he stood only 120 cm to 140 cm (48 in...
As a teenager, Marshall recalls, he was taken by his father, a liberal intellectual, to see Martin Luther King's 1963 march on Washington. The experience propelled himwith his parents' encouragementinto the civil rights movement, and then a gradual evolution into antiwar radicalism. By...
Forsaken by philosophers, the proof was brought up to date last year by James E. Horigan, a Denver lawyer intrigued by scientific theory. In Chance or Design? (Philosophical Library; $13.95) he contends that narrowly antireligious Darwinism ignores the way in which inanimate nature is in harmony with organic evolution. Nor...