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...scientists have estimated the seeds to be as much as 11,700 years old; the same tests on ancient grain samples found in the Middle East or Latin America show that none are more than 9,500 years old. Thus, says the director of the University of Hawaii expedition. Anthropologist Wilhelm G. Solheim II. Thailand's ancient inhabitants may well have been the world's first farmers...
...modern medicine has started a surge of human overpopulation that threatens to overwhelm the earth's resources. At the same time, technological man is bewitched by the dangerous illusion that he can build bigger and bigger industrial societies with scant regard for the iron laws of nature. French Social Anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss compares today's human condition to that of maggots in a sack of flour: "When the population of these worms increases, even before they meet, before they become conscious of one another, they secrete certain toxins that kill at a distance?that is, they poison the flour...
...fifth-graders are now commonplace in schools using an experimental social studies program called "Man: A Course of Study." The one-year course was devised by Psychologist Jerome S. Bruner, director of Harvard's Center for Cognitive Studies, Irven DeVore, professor of anthropology at Harvard, Asen Balikci, an anthropologist at the University of Montreal, and Peter B. Dow of Education Development Center Inc., the nonprofit Cambridge firm that produces the course materials. "We're trying to present a point of view," says Bruner. "We want to give children some appreciation of what a fantastic species man is-that...
Some despair, and predict man will go on saying "Of course" forever-or as long as he can breathe his dirty air. French Anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss believes that pollution will grow worse, and that man will proceed with the wanton destruction of other living beings. Bertrand de Jouvenel adds...
...decade, there will be 11 million more young Americans in the 25-to-34 age group, a rise of 44% over the '60s. (At the same time, there will be 3,000,000 more citizens over the age of 65, a 15% increase.) Never again, insists Anthropologist Margaret Mead, will adults feel entirely at home in a world that is increasingly being shaped by the values and opinions of youth. Today's generation gap, she says, is wider and deeper than any other recorded in history. "They are the natives. We are the immigrants...