Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Foreword: Evolution and the Human Condition
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Earth’s Climate
- The Evolution of the Homo Species
- Climate and Human Migration
- Climate and Agriculture
- The Dominant Paradigm
- 9 Dominance Destabilized
- 10 Fitness Folly
- 11 Darwin the Selector
- 12 Hunting Down Woody
- 13 Kammerer’s Suicide
- 14 Giants and Pygmies
- 15 Dutch Hunger Winter Babies
- Today and Tomorrow
- The Economic Connection
- Dangerous Attitudes
- Living in Dangerous Times
- Glossary
- Notes
- Index
12 - Hunting Down Woody
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Foreword: Evolution and the Human Condition
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Earth’s Climate
- The Evolution of the Homo Species
- Climate and Human Migration
- Climate and Agriculture
- The Dominant Paradigm
- 9 Dominance Destabilized
- 10 Fitness Folly
- 11 Darwin the Selector
- 12 Hunting Down Woody
- 13 Kammerer’s Suicide
- 14 Giants and Pygmies
- 15 Dutch Hunger Winter Babies
- Today and Tomorrow
- The Economic Connection
- Dangerous Attitudes
- Living in Dangerous Times
- Glossary
- Notes
- Index
Summary
The DNA keys of the genetic keyboard are necessary if the music is to be played, but they are neither the player nor the score.
Robert G. B. Reid, Biological Emergences: Evolution by Natural ExperimentIn my early teenage years, I used to slip down to my older brothers’ room in the basement when they were not home and listen to their record collection, especially the Beatles’ Abbey Road, Janis Joplin’s Pearl, and, at Christmas, a record by Herb Alpert and his Tijuana Brass. I would search through the stack of LPs and belt out Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Our Land” and “The Farm-Labor Train,” and his son Arlo’s rendition of Steve Goodman’s “City of New Orleans.”
Married three times, Woody Guthrie and his wives had eight children. It was during his third marriage that his increasingly unpredictable behavior was finally diagnosed as Huntington’s disease – the same degenerative disease that had led to his mother’s institutionalization thirty years previously. He died on October 3, 1967.
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- Living in a Dangerous ClimateClimate Change and Human Evolution, pp. 116 - 118Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012