In 1987, the high court said temporary and narrowly tailored quota systems were allowed. The case stemmed from an affirmative action plan that imposed a promotion standard of one black for one white in the Alabama state police ranks. The quota was justified, justices ruled, because of the department's long and shameful record of delay and resistance to black employment opportunities.
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In the generation after Charles. Darwin, August Weismann articulated the essential biolog-. ical conundrum of aging and sought an explanation not from. physics but from evolution. Weismann is credited with the. ï¬rst evolutionary theory of aging, but his departure from. physical wear and tear was not so clean. His original theory4. was based on a presumption that damage to the adult soma. was unavoidable and that damage must accumulate over. time.