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The obituary mourns the death, at 84, of Otto Wichterle, inventor of the soft contact lens.
According to the great Danish linguist, Otto Jespersen, there are five theories to account for the origin of language: the bow-wow theory, in which speech imitated animal calls; the pooh-pooh theory, in which people made instinctive sounds through physical or emotional reactions; the dingdong theory, in which people reacted to the environment; the yo-he-ho theory, in which people spoke when working together; and the la-la theory, in which speech arose from the romantic side of life.
"The house Anne Frank lived in with 'Diversity,' 'Trench,' and 'Otto' during MTV's first Real World ."-- Jon Hotchkiss
In his Growth and Structure of the English Language, Otto Jespersen noted how few diminutives English has, and how little it uses them.
A key piece of evidence supporting this kind of theory of the evolution of recombination is directional selection, like that which occurs in artificial selection experiments, which often generates a correlated elevation in recombination rates (Otto and Lenormand 2002).