Word: scaled
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...Spurious Scale. Darlington's colleagues will certainly quarrel with his view of history, as he himself cheerfully admits. "I represent an extreme minority view," he says. "I'm trying to overcome the idea that heredity doesn't matter, that all behavior is social, that it's the result of education-the whole general humbug." Like controversial Psychologist Arthur Jensen (TIME, April 11), he is astonished at the willingness of educators to assume that all their students arrive in class with approximately equal intellectual endowments. Any test of this, in his opinion, invariably demolishes the assumption. "Some...
...earlier book, Genetics and Man, published in 1964, Darlington argued that races differ in every imaginable way, and that these differences do not form some spurious scale of merit: they simply and eloquently assert evolution's demand that the species come in as many styles, shapes, personalities and characters as possible, so that the survival of the fittest, in an unpredictable environment, will never be in doubt...
...Evolution of Man and Society carries this argument to the next logical conclusion. "We have now learned that intelligence is of many kinds," Darlington writes. "It has to be measured not on one scale but on many." It is in such diversity, in fact, that he places the only hope for human survival-a diversity not just among societies but among the men who compose them...
...major short-lived phenomena, including 41 earthquakes, 26 volcanic eruptions, 29 fireballs, 20 major oil spills, ten animal migrations and one red tide (a strange discoloration of the seas caused by a sudden spread of tiny marine organisms). Fifty-one of these events were important enough to warrant full-scale scientific investigations...
...barnyard bully into his aggressive beak and flaring tail feathers. Sidney Geist, author of the leading study of Brancusi's work and guest curator of the current exhibition, puts the matter succinctly: "Enviable in its scope, dazzling in its perfections, tentative only in its repetitions, the scale of this effort is human rather than superhuman...