Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were the remains of Earhart's twin-engined Lockheed Electra.* No such luck; the collection turned out to be parts from a Japanese plane. In 1964, Goerner got a flash of headlines by producing seven pounds of human bones and 37 teeth. The flyers? Nope, declared a Berkeley anthropologist-they belonged to some late Micronesians...
...with ghostwriters, the implication being that this is the modern way of doing things. A lot of blame is also put on the high pressure of modern life, on the drive for success at all costs, on the decline of old ethical restraints. As long ago as two decades, Anthropologist Ruth Benedict observed that the U.S. was changing from a "guilt culture," in which people's consciences restrained them, to a "shame culture," in which the main deterrent was fear of getting caught...
...that apes raped black women as one way to climb a notch on the social scale. Even today, people like to think that apes possess a savage and unrestrained libido. Actually, they are scarcely interested in sex at all. In 466 hours of directly observing gorillas in the wild, Anthropologist George Schaller witnessed only two copulations and one unsuccessful try. Furthermore, gorilla swains are sadly underendowed by human standards: the erect male organ measures a scant...
...Anthropologist C. Loring Brace waded in with the observation that humans who now wear the least clothing have the least hair on their bodies; those who wear the most have the greatest amount of hair. Brace believes that man lost his hair by hunting in the noon heat of tropical days; natural selection favored the relatively hairless hunters, whose bodies were best equipped to dissipate heat. This happened more than half a million years ago, says Brace, or roughly 400,000 years before man developed clothing...
Lack of privacy is not calculable in terms of physical space only. In a new book, The Hidden Dimension, Anthropologist Edward Hall points out that people and animals have a sense of psychic space, which differs from race to race, from species to species. Americans waiting for a bus will automatically space themselves several feet apart; Arabs will cluster. In studies conducted on animals, Hall notes that a population crisis occurs when this sense of psychic space is invaded by overcrowding. The birth rate drops and animals die by the score-apparently from stress alone. Something equivalent, suggests Hall, could...