Word: gould
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Professor of Geology Stephen Jay Gould argued, before a crowd of 200 at Hillel last night, that the classical Darwinian theory of evolution must be revised to explain phenomena other than competition among individuals...
...Gould said the Darwinian concept of individuals struggling for personal reward has never been disproven, but the equally valid concepts of competition between groups and even whole species requires a broader theoretical approach...
...entity with a bounded lifespan, stability, and the ability to reproduce is a struggling agent subject to natural selection, Gould said. "But organisms are not the only things with these properties...
...fact, two freshmen, Glen McDonald and Henry Riggs, were so upset that they went to the top. No, they didn't ask evolution mogul Steven Jay Gould to resurrect the great beast. They asked President Derek C. Bok to divest of Harvard's stock in companies that contributed to the decline and fall of the prehistoric animal...
...roughly 15 students present when the dome's driving mechanism stuck were members of Science B-16, "The History of Earth and of Life." The course's leader, Agassiz Professor of Zoology Stephen J. Gould, had obtained special permission for his students to use the telescope to view Halley's comet last week...