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Almost every year for twelve years Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, famed Bohemian-born anthropologist of the Smithsonian Institution, has conducted expeditions to Alaska and the Aleutian Islands to find traces of prehistoric migrations from Asia, has brought back carloads of material from hundreds of village sites. Far from digging at random in the hope of uncovering such a site, when he enters new terrain Dr. Hrdlicka can now spot one as far away as he can see. What makes this scientific detective work possible he last week explained in Science...
...pushed their way through jungles and over mountains never before seen by the cinecamera's eye. The film has not yet been released, but some of the most exciting portions of the sound track have been re-recorded on discs, last week were put on sale.* Endorsed by Anthropologist George Herzog of Columbia University, these discs constitute the best authentic anthology of African Negro music to be found on commercial phonograph records. Much of this music shows rhythmic resemblances to jazz, includes drums, flutes, xylophones and chanting by long-headed Congo Negroes, by the Mambuti Pygmies...
...sang Poet Archibald MacLeish in his Frescoes For Mr. Rockefeller's City. The sound kernel of truth in Poet MacLeish's observation has been clinically noted by Columbia's Anthropologist Franz Boas. At the New York Academy of Medicine last week Dr. Charles Rupert Stockard, embryologist, morphologist and anatomist at Cornell Medical School, offered a possible explanation...
...TIME'S review of Anthropologist Hooton's Apes, Men and Morons you quote his statement that sooner or later the public is going to call Science's bluff of omniscience. As the worthy professor is guilty of many positive statements which smack of omniscience, his bluff is herewith called...
There have been other observers of human behavior who hold opposite views from the learned professor. Says Anthropologist Robert Briffault, "stupidity is deliberately, laboriously, vigilantly cultivated by the established institutions of medievalism, barbarism, and savagery, whose survival in a world of multiplied intelligence requires that stupidity -a stupidity which is an artificial product. It is not innate, it is not inevitable." Said famed Political Economist John Stuart Mill, "of all the vulgar modes of escaping from the consideration of the effect of social and moral influences on the human mind, the most vulgar is that of attributing the diversities...