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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-death evolutionary struggle. This gene-based view of life is compatible with a finding made independently by researchers in a widely divergent branch of science. Rutgers Biochemist George Pieczenik has discovered patterns in DNA coding that he sees as evidence of selection occurring at the molecular level (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why You Do What You Do | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

...According to a Justice Department source, Jimmy Carter and Attorney General Griffin Bell were "terrified" that a prison guard or a local deputy might spot Ray and kill him. If that happened, both the President and the Attorney General realize, there would be no way to convince the conspiracy theorists???whose ranks would certainly swell?that Ray had been anything other than a pawn manipulated by the real killers of Martin Luther King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: RAY'S BREAKOUT | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

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