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...earliest ancestors, says Anthropologist Louis Leakey, was a puny creature named Kenyapithecus africanus that inhabited the earth 20 million years ago. Bones that Leakey found in his native Kenya are the basis of this conclusion. But they also raise a troubling question. How did the weakling those bones belonged to ever survive his hostile environment? He would have been no match for faster and more powerful carnivorous beasts, such as the forebears of lions and leopards, and man did not begin making weapons capable of warding off attacks from big cats until about 2,000,000 years...
...Anthropologists agree that the family of man and the family of apes sprang from a common ancestor. But they have never been able to agree on the time at which man and apes began to take separate paths. As recently as World War II, it was believed that manlike creatures began to evolve five or six million years ago. In the years after the war, the discovery and dating of skeletal remains pushed the existence of man's direct ancestors back to 10 million and then to 14 million years. Now famed Kenya-born Anthropologist Louis Leakey has evidence...
...VIDA, by Oscar Lewis. A nightmarish picture of poverty among Puerto Ricans in San Juan's La Esmeralda and New York City's Spanish Harlem-painted largely by the subjects themselves with the assistance of Anthropologist Lewis' ubiquitous tape recorder...
Forgetting Tiny Tim. In the view of the year-end magazines, few human activities are so fraught with peril as gift giving. In Redbook, Anthropologist Margaret Mead cautioned parents not to give their children presents that will prevent them from growing up to be "independent, autonomous people." In McCall's, Psychiatrist Eric Berne, author of the bestselling Games People Play, described some of the mean little games people play with Christmas gifts. "Mommies have a game for the younger children called 'Wait 'Til after Breakfast, Dear.' It may or may not develop the children...
...rhetoric on the other side has the epic calm of sociological jargon. Partisans of compulsory national service look at their plan as a chance to sort, patch and mold human stock. Margaret Mead, the anthropologist, puts it this way: "Universal national service would make it possible to assay the defects and potentialities of every young American on the threshold of adulthood...