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Witherspoon, who is married to the illegally cute actor Ryan Philippe (her co-star in 1999's Cruel Intentions) and has a two-year-old daughter, says her secret ambition is to be an anthropologist. She says she did some fieldwork along those lines by hanging out with U.S.C. sorority girls to prepare for this role. But she knows more about young American bitchiness than she's telling--or showing--in Blonde. Sometimes, as in Election or the brilliant Pleasantville, in which she was a modern teen time-warped back to the bland, sitcom '50s, her wide-set blue eyes...
...child rearing. But with 1 in 6 families moving in any given year this past decade and family members separated by greater and greater distances, we're increasingly putting ourselves out of reach of potentially helpful relatives. Noting that the isolated nuclear family is an aberration in history, Cornell anthropologist Meredith Small observes, "Across all cultures, all through time, mothers and fathers have always had help from other people. Parents today are stressed because they don't have that help...
...Having a fossil in this region of time, very near the divergence point, is really exciting," says anthropologist C. Owen Lovejoy of Ohio's Kent State University. "Going all the way back to Darwin, people have speculated how, when and why humans stood up on two legs. For paleontologists, this find is a dream come true...
That's how it walked. Why it walked is tougher to understand, since motivation leaves behind no physical remains. But armed with knowledge about our ancestors' physical attributes and the environment that surrounded them, scientists have come up with several theories. Anthropologist Henry McHenry, of the University of California, Davis, for example, champions the idea that climate variation was part of the picture after all. When Africa dried out, say McHenry and his colleague Peter Rodman, the change left patches of forest widely spaced between open savannah. The first hominids lived mostly in these forest refuges but couldn't find...
Reality TV couldn't get any more real than the stuff that Emma Gilding records with her handheld camera. This consumer anthropologist focuses on the scenes that no network would dare show you--tooth flossing, toast buttering and sock sorting. Gilding dives deep into the consumer psyche for clients like American Express, AT&T Wireless and Huggies. As founder and global director for Ogilvy & Mather's Discovery Group, she sends camera-toting researchers to study consumers as if they were part of some undiscovered civilization...