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...valid is that assumption? Consider the opening sentences of Darwin's The Origin of Species...
When on board H.M.S. Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts seemed to me to throw some light on the origin of species--that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers. On my return home, it occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made out on this question by patiently accumulating and reflecting an all sorts of facts which could possibly...
...American Jewish communities, today is also a day of celebration. Many Jews at Harvard gathered last night to commemorate Israel's birthday. But why? America is home to people of a variety of nationalities, yet it seems that very few celebrate the holidays specific to their nation of origin. At first glance, it seems like any sort of nationalist sentiment for any country other than America is wildly out of place here. Yet there is an extremely strong identification with Israel among many American Jews. This phenomenon is even more interesting considering that most of the people who celebrate Israeli...
Since Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, biologists have been trying to discover the "origin of life" through some sort of natural process occurring on Planet Earth. TIME's latest article on the possibility of life originating on some of the moons in our solar system is another extension of this false hope of finding life by means of a chance process. Your story says "all the moons lacked was the heat needed to get biological chemistry going." Life is much more complex than this. The statement made by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory that "we have organic chemicals mixed...
Soyinka told the crowded room that the origin of negritude lay in American black poetry...