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...Kinshasa an aberration or rather a sign of things to come?" asks Timothy Weiskel, a Harvard anthropologist. His answer: Many of today's cities will go the way of Kinshasa. After all, he points out, the rise and fall of great cities has been part of civilization's cycle since humans first began to congregate in large numbers some 6,000 years...
...transportation improved, thanks to the wheel, sailing ships and the domestication of donkeys, connections between far-flung villages and towns expanded dramatically. A flourishing international trade developed in copper ore, gold, ivory, grain, olive oil, wine and other wares. Explains anthropologist Brian Fagan of the University of California at Santa Barbara: "This was the beginning of a global economy...
...epiphanous experience was when I was about17 or 18. I arrived at the University of Alabamaand my intention was then to train to become aprofessional anthropologist. But I discoveredevolution in the writings of Ernst Mayr, who'sstill around--he's a professor emeritus here atHarvard. It was such an enchanting,all-encompassing idea and gave such legitimacy tothe study of natural history, that I was totallypersuaded by its power and thus became far moreinterested in science as a profession as opposedto just the study of bugs...
Dychtwald cites the late anthropologist Margaret Mead as a pioneer of the kind of serial monogamy that may become popular in the next century. Mead liked to say that she was married three times, all successfully. Mead's husbands suited her needs at different points in her long and varied life. Her first partner, whom she called her "student-husband," provided a conventional and comfortable marriage. As her career progressed, however, she $ sought a traveling partner who was interested in her fieldwork. Finally, she found a romantic and intellectual soul mate...
Even without J.F.K., there are enough famous bodies to keep Starrs and others shoveling indefinitely. Clyde Snow, a forensic anthropologist who helped identify the remains of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, recently uncovered a pair of bodies in Bolivia. He and his team hope to prove they are the remains of none other than American outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance...