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...have named Australopithecus anamensis (anam is the Turkana word for lake), is yet another reason why paleontologists are reconsidering some of their ideas about why the earliest humans stood up. According to one theory, as a change in climate transformed Africa's moist forests into drier grasslands, evolution favored hom inids that could stand upright in order to spot predators lurking in the tall grasses. Other researchers argue that an upright posture lessened the heat the animals absorbed from the fierce tropical sun. Still others believe bipedalism freed the hands for carrying food or children over long distances. Such explanations...
...leakey family again finds itself back in a familiar place: the headlines. Not only did Meave Leakey draw worldwide attention last week for her latest discovery of hom inid fossils, but in addition her husband Richard, trying to address an opposition political rally in the Kenyan town of Nakuru two weeks ago, was among a group beaten by a mob wielding ax handles and whips. As Virginia Morell shows in Ancestral Passions, her splendid new collective biography of the Leakey family (Simon & Schuster; $30), this is no surprise; Leakeys have been prominent and colorful figures in paleontology and Kenyan affairs...
...have a lot of faith in the students here at Quincy. I think they will be pretty responsible. I don't think anyone will be falling off the boat," said Quincy House Committee Chair Candace M. Hom '96, when asked if she feared for the safety of house residents on board the Spirit of Boston, the site of their May 6 formal...
...willing to give it a shot," Candace M. Hom '96 said...
...Hom and other students who have visited OCS recently have noticed the crowding...