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IN a paper on the above subject read before the Royal Society of Arts on January 21, Mr. James Kewley did not restrict the term 'evolution' to its purely biological sense of adaptation of species of organisms to changing conditions of environment. Rather he gave to it an added significance and power to embrace not only spontaneous changes, but equally predetermined policies designed by man to meet, or even anticipate, commercial and economic demands. Thereafter he proceeded to determine the measure of success achieved within the industry by citation of facts which by their very baldness proclaim the power of such man-made evolution.
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EVOLUTION IN THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY. Nature 149, 224 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149224a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/149224a0