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...race will have all sorts of ups & downs, perhaps even some more temporary Golden Ages. But the philoprogenitive pressure of its sociological molecules will undo it in the end. No matter what science, government and religion try to do about population, humans will increase like fruit flies in a geneticist's breeding bottle. Stability will come only when starvation sets an impassable limit...
...Hellabrunn horses are a modern throwback to that ancient breed-the end products of careful experiment. Unlike the average horseman, who works at improving the breed, Geneticist Heinz Heck, the Hellabrunn Zoo's director, has spent most of his professional life looking backward. He created the ersatz tarpans by reversing the process of evolution...
Since 1928, when he organized the Hellabrunn Zoo and began his experiments in Riickzüchtung (backward breeding), Geneticist Heck has developed his tarpans and a herd of aurochs, the beefy, bison-like ancestors of modern cattle. Neither strain has any domestic value, but both have shown unusual resistance to disease. "The day may come," said Dr. Heck last week, "when our highly bred, high-strung modern breeds will need a shot of their wild ancestors' blood to revitalize them...
When a movie star is billed as having "it" or "oomph," what she probably has is heterosis (hybrid vigor). At least, that is what Geneticist George D. Snell says. In the current Quarterly Review of Biology, Snell assembles evidence to show that superior qualities in humans, including physical attractiveness, are often due to heterosis, resulting from the crossing of two strains...
...older scientists, reported Whitman, have the deepest spiritual awareness. "Most of them had gone through the phase of agnosticism. They had moved on." Said one elderly geneticist: "When we think we know a lot, we're agnostic. When we learn how insignificant our knowledge is-we return to God." It is the cocksure youngster in the laboratory, Whitman found, who says, "How wonderful I am! Look what I've found in the atom!" The old man says, "Isn't God wonderful-look what He's put in the atom...