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Wall Street as the real world is a concept that could raise eyebrows. But some financial experts wonder whether the quants are weakening whatever contact with reality the street may have had. Steve Barnett, an anthropologist who is a principal of Global Business Network, a think tank, says that in the pre-quant days, Wall Street was patriarchal, intuitive, much more related to the world as it was. But hard-core quants, he complains across the generation gap, "are almost idiots savants with numbers . . . There is an almost prayerful communion with the computer. They're intense and operate...
...Anthropologist Barnett, reflecting on the brokerage business, says, "You can't do it intuitively anymore." He adds, "The next generation of computer architecture, be it massively parallel programming or 64-bit addressing or hyper- or meta-computing, essentially is going to be data mining where the data will be searched in even finer granularity to discover patterns that even this generation...
...read Metternich more avidly than Jefferson, is unabashedly in the realist camp. "No other nation," he writes, "has ever rested its claim to international leadership on its altruism." Other Americans might proclaim this as a point of pride; when Kissinger says it, his attitude seems that of an anthropologist examining a rather unsettling tribal ritual. The practice of basing policy on ideals rather than interests, he points out, can make a nation seem dangerously unpredictable...
...dissemination of the science essay dismays Bernard Ortiz de Montellano, an anthropologist at Detroit's Wayne State University who has long lobbied for greater minority representation in science. "The danger of an Afrocentric scientific curriculum," he says, "is that if you start doing pseudoscience in schools under the guise of getting more minorities into science, you actually end up with fewer minorities in the real sciences...
Ofer Bar-Yosef, a Harvard University anthropologist, believes the intermingling occurred when the advance of Ice Age glaciers forced Neanderthals to move south into Homo sapiens' regions and when retreating glaciers allowed early Homo sapiens to follow Neanderthals back into northern climes. Still others, citing anatomical changes in the most recent Neanderthals, think they evolved independently into early Europeans.Wolpoff suggests a Solomonic solution for resolving the Neanderthal debate: phrasing the question correctly. "We can't be asking, 'Are Neanderthals the ancestors of humans?' " he says. "We should be asking, 'Are some Neanderthals ancestral to some Europeans?' And the answer...