Word: speciesism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many recent theorists?such as Nobel-prizewinning Ethologist Konrad Lorenz and Scots Biologist V.C. Wynne-Edwards?have focused on the group or species as the primary unit of selection. Darwin wrote that it was the individual organism. But Sociobiologists believe it is the genes themselves that conduct the life-or...
Yet sociobiology did not arise from molecular studies but as an answer to a century-old gap in Darwinian theory: Darwin could not fully explain why some organisms help other members of their species. His theory held that every organism fights for its own survival and chance to reproduce, not...
CENTRAL FLORIDA. Disney World at Orlando is, of course, the magnet. An hour's drive away, at Tampa, is Busch Gardens' Dark Continent, which features not only exotic African beasts on a Serengeti-esque plain but also such other threatened species as snake charmers and belly dancers. Tampa...
Roller coasters come in two distinct species: wooden and metal. The wooden coasters, contemporary versions of rides of old, are strong, flexible and durable, but they look rickety, thus adding to the terror. Their clacking and creaking are built in, and serve to heighten the sensation of speed.
In an age of impersonal, high-fee specialization, Bishop would seem to be an anachronism, as unlikely a character as TV's kindly Marcus Welby. In fact, he is only one of a growing new breed of doctors: the family practitioner. The first trained and accredited F.P.s, as they...