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...scientists working on military devices. Harvard's Conant, a chemist by trade and a member of NDRC, recently spent a month in Britain sharing his secrets, filling his head with new ones. Britain's scientific ambassador to the U.S. is Charles Gallon Darwin, grandson of the great evolutionist and head of Britain's National Physical Laboratory...
...Charles Darwin wrote: "Without the work of this humble creature, who knows nothing of the benefits he confers upon mankind, agriculture, as we know it, would be very difficult, if not wholly impossible." The great evolutionist was referring to the lowly earthworm...
...pterodactyl. On his fossil hunts in the Wild West he dis covered that U. S. dinosaurs sometimes weighed 40 tons, that cretaceous birds had teeth, that cretaceous seas contained sea serpents. He helped organize the U. S. Geological Survey (see p. 66), was a lifelong friend of British Evolutionist Thomas Huxley. He exposed the Cardiff Giant ("a gypsum man, ten and a half feet long, nude, virile and unabashed") as a fake. His biography by Clara LeVene and Professor Schuchert, one of the few co-workers whose respect and affection managed to transcend the great paleontologist's "autocratic tendency...
...Apparently the anti-evolutionist demands to see a monkey or an ass transformed into a man, though he must be familiar enough with the reverse process...
...those who protest that rat emotions are not to be compared with human emotions, Dr. Hall replies that human psychology has evolved directly from animal psychology-and that if you do make such a protest "you are not really an evolutionist, and therefore your views deserve little serious consideration...