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In 1649, Oliver Cromwell effectively began his rule over the Commonwealth of England, religious freedom was codified in Maine and Massachusetts—and John Rogers graduated from Harvard College. Over 300 years later, his direct descendant, Nathaniel F.R. Rogers ’05 has become the most recent in...
Over the years since Lucy was found, several even older hominids, including Ardipithecus ramidus ramidus (4.4 million years old) and Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba (5.8 million), have been put forward as the most ancient of our direct ancestors. But Toumai is older still. If it is as modern looking as Wood...
If the new hominid does eventually upend the conventional wisdom, however, it will raise all sorts of questions. For example, if Sahelanthropus had descendant species that gave rise to H. habilis, asks Harvard's Lieberman, where are they? Nobody knows, moreover, what triggered the emergence of the earliest hominids in...
In the end, I wonder if colonization might somehow be magical. After all, Miles Davis is the direct descendant of slaves and slave owners. Hank Williams is the direct descendant of poor whites and poorer Indians. In 1876 Emily Dickinson was writing her poems in an Amherst attic while Crazy...
My editors, though, are wimps. They were afraid that my pursuit of historical accuracy--killing a buffalo with a black-powder musket, for instance--would upset you. They were also concerned about the law, in terms of eating animals like grizzly bear, beaver, horse and whale. Worst of all, they...