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Arreguin-Toft and Nowrojee are accompanied by four other newcomers to the Carr center, including Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, a Sudanese anthropologist and visiting professor of African and gender studies at Brown University; Robert Choo ’90, a former worker at Save the Children Vietnam and Myanmar; Vjosa Dobruna, a Kosovar pediatric neurologist and human rights activist; and Max Glaser, a former senior policy maker at the humanitarian relief organization Doctors Without Borders...
Other winners this year, ranging in age from 29 to 60, include a seismologist who works to prevent natural disasters in third-world countries, a glass bead artist, and an anthropologist who uses fossilized plants to understand ancient cultures...
...more. And prior to the domestication of crops such as wheat and corn, humans consumed a variety of wild grains filled with fiber, which slows digestion. The process of highly refining foods, which allows carbohydrates to be quickly absorbed by the digestive system, wasn't widespread. As Rutgers University anthropologist Lionel Tiger puts it, human metabolism "did not evolve for prime beef, but, one would surmise, neither did it evolve to eat heaping plates of white rice and pasta." Nor heaping plates of doughnuts and chocolate-covered croissants, for that matter...
...fair play to cowboy Jody Brown and his endangered breed, let's entertain two arguments in favor of eating meat. One is that it made us human. "We would never have evolved as large, socially active hominids if we hadn't turned to meat," says Katharine Milton, an anthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley. The vegetarian primates (orangutans and gorillas) are less social than the more omnivorous chimpanzees, possibly because collecting and consuming all that forage takes so darned much time. The early hominids took a bold leap: 2.5 million years ago, they were cracking animal bones...
...South African physician and social anthropologist, Ramphele currently serves as managing director of the World Bank. In this capacity, she oversees the bank’s activities in health, education, social protection and information technology...