Word: tapeworm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Relieving Tension. In East Germany, one brand of pills to combat tapeworm includes a note in each package: "It's no use to worry about your health unless at the same time you work to assure world peace...
...defined by popular usage, man's ancestors were apes or mon keys (or successively both) . . . Man is in the fullest sense a part of nature and not apart from it. He is not figuratively but literally akin to every living thing, be it an amoeba, a tapeworm, a flea, a seaweed, an oak tree or a monkey." In a word, man lives in a world "in which he is not the darling of the gods." In other species, Simpson points out, uncontrolled evolution often leads to degeneration and usually to extinction. "But man is not just another animal...
...A.A.A.S., George G. Simpson, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Vertebrate Paleontology, assailed the myth that "man is the darling of the gods." Unless man takes a decisive role in shaping his evolution, he stands no better chance to survive than the tapeworm, Simpson said...