TY - JOUR AU1 - Lerner, I. Michael AB - NOTES AND COMMENTS 1. MICHAEL LERNER University of California, Berkeley The consummation of a cataract of Darwinian volumes (either with agreeable surprise or festivities and commemorations held in the with raised eyebrows, depending on what they course of 1958 and 1959 in many lands and on know by then) grains of dissent from the gen­ eral paeans in praise of the prevailing notions all continents (with the possible exception of about the mechanisms of both organic and cul­ Antarctica) was reached in the week-long Centennial Celebration at the University of tural evolution. No matter what, they will not Chicago in November of the latter year. Two fail to be impressed by the amount of factual volumes 1 of the proceedings are now available, and conceptual advance the several generations and a third, containing papers on science and (and especially, the more recent ones) of religion, the proces-verbaux of five panel dis­ post-Darwin students have made in the journey towards understanding man and his environ­ cussions and a general index to the whole series, ment. is, at the time of writing, still to come (the set will then be available for $25.00). For biology, this has been a proud century. TI - THE ALPHA AND OMEGA OF CURRENT EVOLUTIONARY THOUGHT JF - Evolution DO - 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1960.tb03122.x DA - 1960-12-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-alpha-and-omega-of-current-evolutionary-thought-0auen9f09m SP - 533 EP - 535 VL - 14 IS - 4 DP - DeepDyve ER -