Word: anthropologist
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...Liang Bua has cast doubt over the separate-species theory, and sparked a bitter split in scientific circles over its validity. Battle lines have been drawn, with each side vigorously trying to discredit the other. Rampasasa "makes the short-stature argument completely irrelevant," says skeptic Alan Thorne, an anthropologist at the Australian National University. "There are plenty of Pygmies in that area. In the case of these bones, it was probably a diseased Pygmy." Counters Peter Brown, the University of New England paleoanthropologist who co-wrote the Nature report with a colleague, archaeologist Michael Morwood: "Of course, there are small...
...DIED. FEI XIAOTONG, 94, Chinese sociologist and anthropologist famous for documenting Chinese rural life in works such as Peasant Life in China and From the Soil; in Beijing. One of China's most distinguished and prolific scholars, Fei helped lay the foundation for sociology in China, only to fall from grace during the Cultural Revolution for studying what was considered a capitalist science. Rehabilitated, he became Vice-Chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, and later served as an adviser to then-Shanghai party secretary Jiang Zemin during the 1989 student-led democracy movement...
...looks a bit formal and out of place in coat, tie and newsboy cap. He grew up in Pittsburgh's predominantly black Hill District, dropped out of school in the ninth grade and set out to educate himself by devouring books in the library. One of the first was anthropologist Ruth Benedict's Patterns of Culture. "In my plays I sort of work as an anthropologist," he says, "finding those parts of culture, habits and whatnot that embody these people." He soaked up the life of his neighborhood, even dropping in on funerals of people he didn't know just...
...genes because it is evolutionarily adaptive. The ape (or human) who chases off a rival enhances his chances to get his genes into the next generation. Males are jealous because they can never be sure of paternity; females, because they need males to help protect the young. Says Rutgers Anthropologist Lionel Tiger: "Eternal vigilance is the price of sexual confidence...
...that I’m getting older I’m getting different opportunities to play different roles,” Reid says. “An anthropologist, a mother, a doctor...