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...theory of racial inferiority lurks at the edges of current anthropological thought. In his book The Origin of Races, Anthropologist Carleton S. Coon suggests that Homo sapiens-modern man-evolved not once but five times, in five different places. The last to attain the fully human estate, says Coon, was the Negro-a conjecture that, if accepted, explains why Negro cultures in Africa lag behind the West's and why the Negro is not yet the white man's intellectual peer. According to Coon, he simply has not had enough time. Approaching the subject from closer range, University...
ANIMAL SECRETS (NBC, 7-7:30 p.m.). Is there "Life on Other Planets"? Until we can see for ourselves, we can only look at the evidence - such as meteorites from outer space that are remarkably earthlike in composition - and speculate, as does Anthropologist Dr. Loren Eiseley, that there are millions of planets as well suited to life as our own. Repeat...
...compulsive gambler is by definition an extreme case, but many of his motivations are shared in milder form by all gamblers. Anthropologist Charlotte Olmsted, who made a study of the subject in Heads I Win, Tails You Lose, believes that "many male gamblers use gambling as a substitute for sex. This is why you see so much of it in lumber camps or among soldiers. It helps avoid a certain amount of fighting as well as homosexuality." A lot of people clearly play for fun or excitement, and only secondarily for the just-maybe chance of winning some money...
...drastic change in the family. At least so thinks Anthropologist Margaret Mead, who foresees "a new style with an emphasis on very small families and a high toleration of childless marriage or a more encompassing social style in which parenthood would be limited to a smaller number of families whose principal function would be child rearing; the rest of the population would be free to function-for the first time in history-as individuals." This will result from worldwide birth control and the "massive failure" of the present family setup (as evidenced by "adolescent rebellion cults, overt and aggressive male...
...began keeping good birth records in the 18th century, the U.S. was slow to follow. Massachusetts began in 1841, followed by other New England states. Significantly, there are no reports of incredibly advanced age from areas that keep good birth records. Dr. Belle Boone Beard, a University of Georgia anthropologist, lists 28 ways of proving age. They vary in reliability from college-entrance or graduation records to marriage, insurance and naturalization records. For former slaves like Charlie Smith, Dr. Beard recognizes ships' manifests, bills of sale, deeds and wills as at least helpful evidence...