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...each species’ cognitive ability and why some species are better at reading human signals, Wrangham said. Wobber wanted to know if this was the result of domestication. Wobber, who conducted thesis research at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, examined various dog breeds. Among these was the New Guinea Singing Dog, a breed that had limited human contact but was domesticated very early, Wrangham said. Wobber found that dogs’ understanding of human signals has evolved over time through domestication. Wobber argued that inter-human communication may have evolved in a similar...
...that I did.” “I was only interested in two things: graduating and basketball,” Kantrowitz adds. “I certainly was not one who found any problem with the facilities at Harvard at that time.” Donald D. Breed ’56 says that though a number of seniors moved off campus for their last year during that time, it was due more to avoid parietal rules than overcrowding. “At that time, it was very circumscribed when women could come and visit and they...
...Cover) In 1946, Dr. Hans Thirring, a Viennese scholar without access to secret information, read certain published reports that could be found in any physics library. Going about the scientist's business of mating known facts to breed new facts, Dr. Thirring made and published calculations leading to the conclusion that out of lithium hydride could be constructed a bomb many times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. At the end of his austere equations, Dr. Thirring's scientific article flamed up into a prayer: "God protect the country over which a six-ton bomb...
...October 2004 that 70,000 had died since March 2004, other estimates put the death toll three to four times higher. But exact number of deaths is irrelevant. The Janjaweed militias continue to use such tactics as filling wells with sand and raping non-Arab women in order to breed “Arab” offspring. And our concern for the region only grew this week when Osama bin Laden called for a jihad in Sudan against any peacekeeping force.Also recently, rebels funded by the Sudanese government stormed N’Djamena, the capital of Chad.To call Darfur dangerous...
...Brown running back Nick Hartigan, while not a Crimson athlete, is of the same breed. The thing is, he very well might not get drafted. He’s not as good as Fitzpatrick coming out of college, and he plays a position with more elite players than the quarterback spot. My top Ivy League football source predicts that his name won’t be called at all this weekend, yet that hasn’t stopped the hype machine from churning out useless info about him. ESPN’s Dan Shanoff blatantly admitted that every year...