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These fanciful notions are not putons, Author Morgan says, and she insists: "I am deadly in earnest." But scientists find it easy to demolish her ideas. Physical Anthropologist Ian Tattersall of the American Museum of Natural History notes, for example, that Homo sapiens never made any of the physical adaptations for swimming and "breathing" under water that are exhibited by true aquatic mammals. In fact, in refuting Hardy's aquatic theory, scientists have pointed to ample proof that man has been a land-based creature for the past 15 million years or so. Furthermore, Tattersall notes, there...
Prime Example. If Homo sapiens were innately and inevitably aggressive, Alland observes, all men would behave aggressively and in a predictable, stereotyped manner. In fact, some societies are nonviolent, and in others aggression is expressed in widely varying, culturally determined ways that are "a far cry from the rather automatic and highly patterned aggressive responses which occur in lower animals...
...Homo sapiens such a murderous species? Mayhem among gangsters crests periodically, like seasonal floods, to settle grudges or to clarify title to racket real estate. Less organized killing is random and constant-and more difficult to pin down. Our cover story and Essay this week discuss both kinds; analyzing the skein of gang murders in New York and the deep-seated psychology of violence that has no home town...
Piccard estimated that what he calls Homo technicus releases between 5,000,000 and 10,000,000 tons of polluting petroleum products every year to float on the seas' sensitive surface. Up to 1.8 million tons come from automobile exhaust emissions which rise into the atmosphere and eventually precipitate onto the ocean surface. Tankers spill another million. The world's polluted rivers spew out the rest...
...source of revolutionary hope. But the modern sin of overstatement runs away with Revel. Before he can stop, he is dreaming of a revolution that will spread from the U.S. by "a sort of political osmosis" until it arrives at its logical conclusion: "world government" and-glory, glory-"Homo novus, a new man very different from other...