Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However the rift between the Dudevants continued to grow. Sand drew up a marriage contract and began to live half the year on her own in Paris. There her platonic lovers became physical ones, her second child, born during this time, was probably not Dudevant's. After several years of growing antagonism, the Dudevants were legally and scandalously separated...
...need science to tell you all men are not created equal. Put a man and a woman in a secluded room and they will soon uncover this fact themselves. The woman cannot grow a testicle, nor the man a bust, nor the African a blonde hair, nor the Caucasian a colorfast suntan. Nor do they need to. As my roommate says, "What counts is not my 140 I.Q., but what I do with...
This city will always pursue you. You'll walk the same streets, grow old in the same neighborhoods, turn gray in the same houses...
...Types of natural selection. When an organism grows continuously in a relatively constant environment natural selection has a stabilizing effect, weeding out the variants that deviate too far in any direction from the well adapted norm. But when the environment is changed the same basic process of natural selection has a diversifying effect: the new circumstances select for the preferential survival and reproduction of variants with increased fitness for those circumstances. This Darwinian process explains a phenomenon that confused early workers: when pathogenic bacterial strains are isolated from infected hosts and then repeatedly transferred in artificial culture media they often...
...dominating role of natural selection in determining what survive, multiplies, and evolves. While Darwin dealt only with the visible living world, Pasteur made essentially the same discovery for invisible organisms, though expressed in different terms: bacteria do not arise by spontaneous generation but are ubiquitous, and the kinds that grow out in any medium are the ones that are selected by that medium. An extension of these principles to infectious disease gave rise to the science of epidemiology, which may be viewed as a branch of microbial ecology concerned particularly with the distribution of pathogenic organisms...