Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...theory of racial inferiority lurks at the edges of current anthropological thought. In his book The Origin of Races, Anthropologist Carleton S. Coon suggests that Homo sapiens-modern man-evolved not once but five times, in five different places. The last to attain the fully human estate, says Coon, was the Negro-a conjecture that, if accepted, explains why Negro cultures in Africa lag behind the West's and why the Negro is not yet the white man's intellectual peer. According to Coon, he simply has not had enough time. Approaching the subject from closer range, University...
...keep open the possibility that the races of man can be intellectually ranked. To Curt Stern, a geneticist at the University of California at Berkeley, it seems unreasonable to conclude that "because there is no evidence of inherent inequalities, the situation couldn't exist." Says University of Colorado Anthropologist John Greenway: "I would not want to say that an Australian Aborigine is dumber than I am, because there is no way to tell. In their noncompetitive society there is no way to make any tests and hence no way to make comparisons. We don't know what...
...adaptively significant traits is emotionally repugnant to some people," wrote Geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky in Mankind Evolving. "Any inquiry into this matter is felt to be dangerous, lest it vindicate race prejudice." Undeniably, racial prejudice is social or cultural in origin rather than biological, and it is understandable that anthropologists, who hesitate to make value judgments on the basis of biological fact, would hesitate also to enter what is fundamentally a sociological-and highly emotional-controversy. Anthropologist Morton Fried says that "participation in a 'debate' over racial differences in intelligence, ability or achievement potential is not participation...
ANIMAL SECRETS (NBC, 7-7:30 p.m.). Is there "Life on Other Planets"? Until we can see for ourselves, we can only look at the evidence - such as meteorites from outer space that are remarkably earthlike in composition - and speculate, as does Anthropologist Dr. Loren Eiseley, that there are millions of planets as well suited to life as our own. Repeat...
...drastic change in the family. At least so thinks Anthropologist Margaret Mead, who foresees "a new style with an emphasis on very small families and a high toleration of childless marriage or a more encompassing social style in which parenthood would be limited to a smaller number of families whose principal function would be child rearing; the rest of the population would be free to function-for the first time in history-as individuals." This will result from worldwide birth control and the "massive failure" of the present family setup (as evidenced by "adolescent rebellion cults, overt and aggressive male...