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...random change in the elaborate chemistry of human chromosomes, which govern man's biological evolution. For arctic and desert-dwelling people, subjected to blinding blizzards of snow or sand, the eye fold had definite survival value: it increased the eyes' protection against such hazards. Thus the trait endured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: RACE & ABILITY | 9/29/1967 | See Source »

...extended tropical sojourn appears to have generated other useful or once useful adaptations more frequently found in dark-skinned peoples. A hereditary blood condition known as the sickle-cell trait, which grants resistance to certain types of malaria, is only now beginning to wane among U.S. Negroes, who no longer have any need of it. The Negro's woolly black hair once provided insulation against the heat of the blazing tropical sun; his thick lips, by exposing more mucous membrane, may have increased the body's evaporative cooling powers in torrid climates; his characteristically long legs and lean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: RACE & ABILITY | 9/29/1967 | See Source »

...house." The only cause for criticism the young officer ever gave his superiors was an innate caution that made him less aggressive than they sometimes would have preferred-a reluctance to commit his troops to battle unless he felt absolutely sure he could win. It was a trait Thieu was to carry into politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: A Vote for the Future | 9/15/1967 | See Source »

Political aloofness, however, is not the most basic hippie trait. That is exploration of affection, of loneliness, of communication in general--a trait which the Beatles pluck from the depths of morbid introspection and express in their own constantly changing musical idiom...

Author: By Billy Shears, | Title: Sgt. Pepper's One and Only | 8/22/1967 | See Source »

...packed house at Fenway was more delirious over Andrews' bunt than any of the fireworks which preceded or followed it. His neat piece of strategy demonstrated a trait which was, until this year, a total stranger to Fenway Park. Intelligence...

Author: By Richard Andrews, | Title: Something Special About the Red Sox | 8/1/1967 | See Source »

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