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...theory about the original peopling of Australia, in conflict with the general belief that the Australian aboriginal bushmen represent a single homogeneous race, was reported last night in a lecture here, by Joseph B. Birdsell, physical anthropologist of the Peabody Museum of Anthropology...
...first report of a year-long Harvard expedition to Australia, which traveled more than 10,000 miles on the continent and took physical measurements of some 2,500 aborigines, will be made tomorrow night by Joseph B. Birdsell, physical anthropologist of the Peabody Museum at 8 o'clock tonight in the Institute of Geographical Exploration...
Died. Professor Eugene Dubois, 82, Dutch anthropologist who in 1891 found the first skull of the Java ape man, concluded he had discovered the "missing link," called it Pithecanthropus erectus; in Haelen, Belgium. Dr. Dubois's find started the '905' hottest scientific controversy, from which, for reasons of piety, he suddenly withdrew, locking up his fossils from the world's sight until 1926. Thereafter, despite important new evidence, he held that Java Man was no more than an early...
...these as in all her elegant, strange writings Elizabeth Madox Roberts combines the qualities of a dancer, a painter, an anthropologist and a woman. As a dancer she handles space and motion with uncommon delicateness: the void of a deserted mansion, the soft shiftings-together of barn beasts, the motions of two small sisters who, with entwined arms, "pulled and twisted each other about as one creature." As a painter she delivers some of the most firmly structural, curiously cleansed landscapes in U. S. writing. As an anthropologist she is almost too sharply aware of the symbolic undertones of rural...
...Remus who founded Rome in 753 B.C. In 1940 A.D. from South Africa came a scarcely more credible tale of a black boy reared among baboons (TIME, April 1). Between these doubtful tales are 22 cases of children reared in the wilds by wolves, bears, leopards, etc. to which anthropologists credit some authenticity.* But only one case is open to real scientific study: the wolf-children of Midnapore, whose rescuer described them with camera and diary. World authority on these incarnations of Kipling's Mowgli is Anthropologist Robert Mowry Zingg of the University of Denver, who has taken over...