Word: anthropologist
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People indulge in nonverbal communication not basically to be clever or devious but because these ways of communicating are deeply embedded in the habits of the species and automatically transmitted by all cultures. So says Anthropologist Ray Birdwhistell, a pioneer in the study of kinesics, as body language is called. Other experts point out that signaling by movement occurred among lizards and birds, as well as other creatures, even before mammals emerged...
DIED. Carleton Coon, 76, wide-ranging anthropologist who traced the development of humanity from its earliest stages to the first agricultural communities and whose many books include The Story of Man (1954) and The Seven Caves (1957); of cancer; in Gloucester, Mass...
...happens to be a woman, not a woman chosen in lieu of a scholar. It is blatantly insulting to an outstanding human being to imply even remotely that she was appointed because she is a woman rather than as the result of a national search for the most qualified anthropologist in the field of comparative...
Time: Nov. 30, 1974. Scene: the bleached and arid Afar Triangle of Ethiopia. Nothing about the desert seemed auspicious. Yet Anthropologist Donald Johanson had a premonition that this would be no ordinary morning. Shortly afterward, his hunch was ratified. The day was not merely unusual; it was epochal...
Given this finding, even the most stolid anthropologist could construct a story of suspense and revelation. But Johanson and Co-Author Maitland Edey are no standard scientists. Like polished mystery writers, they trace the many searches for origins and review the rivalries that have driven such scholarly sleuths as Louis, Mary and Richard Leakey. Since Johanson is driven by the same combination of curiosity, daring and egotism, Lucy is both enlivened and marred by a lack of objectivity. Johanson is convinced that he is now in sole possession of the truth about human roots-and perhaps...