Word: anthropologist
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...transportation improved, thanks to the wheel, sailing ships and the domestication of donkeys, connections between far-flung villages and towns expanded dramatically. A flourishing international trade developed in copper ore, gold, ivory, grain, olive oil, wine and other wares. Explains anthropologist Brian Fagan of the University of California at Santa Barbara: "This was the beginning of a global economy...
...epiphanous experience was when I was about17 or 18. I arrived at the University of Alabamaand my intention was then to train to become aprofessional anthropologist. But I discoveredevolution in the writings of Ernst Mayr, who'sstill around--he's a professor emeritus here atHarvard. It was such an enchanting,all-encompassing idea and gave such legitimacy tothe study of natural history, that I was totallypersuaded by its power and thus became far moreinterested in science as a profession as opposedto just the study of bugs...
Dychtwald cites the late anthropologist Margaret Mead as a pioneer of the kind of serial monogamy that may become popular in the next century. Mead liked to say that she was married three times, all successfully. Mead's husbands suited her needs at different points in her long and varied life. Her first partner, whom she called her "student-husband," provided a conventional and comfortable marriage. As her career progressed, however, she $ sought a traveling partner who was interested in her fieldwork. Finally, she found a romantic and intellectual soul mate...
...Anastasia, 17. "The bones we have show completed growth, which indicates more mature individuals," observes team leader William Maples, curator of the Florida Museum of Natural History. Did Alexei and Anastasia escape alive, as legend has it? Not likely. Their bodies were probably cremated, say the scientists. Anthropologist Maples recommends "a good archaeological survey outside Yekaterinburg to find the fire pit. Then we can put an end to the romantic myths and close the case...
Even without J.F.K., there are enough famous bodies to keep Starrs and others shoveling indefinitely. Clyde Snow, a forensic anthropologist who helped identify the remains of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, recently uncovered a pair of bodies in Bolivia. He and his team hope to prove they are the remains of none other than American outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance...