Word: anthropologist
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...analysis in class, but the professor asked him not to do so. What happens at other universities where Huntington's department at Harvard has written that the book "merits its reputation as one of the true classics of modern political science?" On the other hand, the Yale anthropologist Leopold Pospisil (who is a member of the NAS), wrote to Katz that he "very much like [Katz's] letter as a critique of the social sciences," and he asked Katz's permission to reproduce his letter "for the benefit of students and colleagues...
Seven years ago, Buettner-Janusch had witnessed the end of his career as an acclaimed and highly respected anthropologist. This past February, he allegedly tried to murder the judge who sent him away. Moreover, he allegedly sent poisoned chocolates to several other former colleagues...
Many a beery bull session has ended in toasts asserting that this is what civilized life is all about. The theory does not always survive morning light. But Anthropologist Solomon Katz believes civilization may indeed have begun with the first beer. Ten thousand years ago, man the hunter-gatherer settled down to civilized crop raising. Just why has never been clear, however. Katz, 47, who hoists a civilizing glass or two himself, argues in the University of Pennsylvania's anthropology magazine that one key was the accidental fermenting of a beer from cereal grains...
Dreaming: Shirley Strum says that there came a time when the baboons spoke to her in English. They came to her in her dreams and asked for her help. For twelve years Strum, an anthropologist from California, had been studying a baboon troop at a ranch called Kekopey, near Gilgil. Then the ranch was turned into an agricultural collective, and the new farmers menaced the baboons and tried to kill them...
...This skull is the most exciting find since Lucy," says Eric Delson, an anthropologist at the City University of New York's Lehman College. "Relationships among australopithecines will need to be somewhat revised." That will not surprise anthropologists. Although the current diagram of humanity's family tree is based on thousands of specimens, most of them are frustratingly incomplete. Walker's fossil may force a revision in the textbooks, but it is not likely to be the last...