Word: anthropologist
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...Anthropologist Margaret Mead wrote in 1961 thatstudents saw conformity as the key to conventionalsuccess: "[S]tatistics on national contests forscholarships and for admissions to especiallydesirable institutions have increased thewidespread sense that to succeed today it isnecessary to conform and to complete in terms ofnational norm...
...Anthropologist Margaret Mead wrote in 1961 thatstudents saw conformity as the key to conventionalsuccess: "[S]tatistics on national contests forscholarships and for admissions to especiallydesirable institutions have increased thewidespread sense that to succeed today it isnecessary to conform and to complete in terms ofnational norm...
...Anthropologist James L. Watson, Fairbank professor of Chinese society, said it was not China that would absorb Hong Kong, but Hong Kong that would absorb China...
...read Metternich more avidly than Jefferson, is unabashedly in the realist camp. "No other nation," he writes, "has ever rested its claim to international leadership on its altruism." Other Americans might proclaim this as a point of pride; when Kissinger says it, his attitude seems that of an anthropologist examining a rather unsettling tribal ritual. The practice of basing policy on ideals rather than interests, he points out, can make a nation seem dangerously unpredictable...
Those proportions, and comparisons between the grandson and other, more fragmentary skulls both large and small, convince Kimbel and his colleagues that afarensis was indeed a single species, as they had believed all along. The arm bones, too, appear to bolster this idea. According to Leslie Aiello, an anthropologist at University College London, they have exactly the robust, curving form you would expect from a tree climber. The two sexes didn't have different kinds of skills, she says, but were both "a mosaic, bipedal from the waist down and arboreal from the waist...