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Certainly, not everyone is pleased with this new research. Looking to animals to study something as complex as motherhood, critics say, is little more than anthropology by analogy, relying on the worst kind of scientific reductionism to explain the highest kind of human impulses. But anthropologists view matters differently, seeing in animal and human mothers a striking commonness of purpose--and a striking commonness of grace. "All mothers face similar dilemmas," says anthropologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy of the University of California at Davis, "no matter what their ambitions or circumstances...
Anil Tissera, 33, a forensic anthropologist, returns to the Sri Lanka she left at age 18 as one member of a U.N. team allowed into the country by the government to investigate alleged human rights violations, i.e., death-squad murders. Her assigned partner in this seven-week enterprise is a Sri Lankan archaeologist named Sarath Diyasena, 49, who is, by virtue of his position, a government employee. Anil immediately wonders whether her co-worker will be helping her or reporting on her to his employees. "Can I trust you?" she asks him. His reply: "You have to trust...
...from both being academics, Dolores and Jefferson Fish are opposites--and that's what they love about each other. Dolores is African American; Jeff is white. She's a loner; he's a mixer. She's nurturing; he's competitive. She's rational; he's emotional. As a cultural anthropologist she studies objects; as a psychologist he studies people. "We have zero overlap," says Jeff proudly. "Even after 30 years together, I am perpetually fascinated by Dolores." The feeling is mutual. "Jeff and I have many more interesting worlds to share with each other because we have those differences," says...
...foot bones to establish Eosimias as the common ancestor of monkeys, apes and man. Some experts, in fact, say that Eosimias is probably closer to the tarsiers, which split off earlier from the monkey-to-human branch. "So far, we don't have the smoking gun," argues anthropologist Eric Delson of the City University of New York's Lehman College. He would be convinced, he says, by a full skull showing fused eye sockets and forehead. (By contrast, lemurs have gaps in both places...
...article, published in the December issue of Current Anthropologist, hypothesizes that at this time humans first harnessed fire for cooking...