Word: theoryã
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Palumbi said he valued the evolutionary process more for its ramifications than for the theory??s internal worth. One example: the HIV virus, which has a high mutation rate that allows it to evolve within days or weeks...
...exotic locales like Egypt, Russia and Japan helped propel him to the forefront of European science at the end of the Edwardian age. In his spare time, he even found a financially viable procedure to extract nitrogen from the air for use in fertilizer. He eventually presented a theory??proven years after his lonely death—that the origin of the beautiful waves of the borealis were rooted in the Earth’s electromagnetic field and the energy from similar phenomena...
Charles Beard, dean of the Progressive historians, spoke of the “devil theory?? of American politics—the belief that if only you replaced the devils with the angels in government, all would be well. Despite its apocalyptic rhetoric, it is a profoundly naive portrait of the world. By golly, if it’s that easy to solve all the world’s problems, why the heck can’t we do it straight away? Naturally, it must be the doing of some bad guys, be they evil corporations or immigrants...