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What a stunningly brilliant choice. It's enough to restore faith in the essential wisdom of Homo sapiens. Bless...
...ambivalent about becoming an academic—the whitest of white-collar professionals, whose usefulness to society at large is questionable, who at worst appears to live in a detached existence floating above the mundane everyday.This spectacle has, at least, offered up one epiphany: professors are homo sapiens, too. Just like their students back home, some will hook up, and many will get tanked. Indeed, a number are well on their way now, at 8 p.m. Score one for normalcy, as it were.Tonight, released from a solitary existence of research archives and state schools, these academics are having a raucous...
...surrounding world. The AIDS crisis “humanized” gay men, he says later–adding that he meant “humanizing for those who hadn’t seen them” as human before. Not, of course, that gay men suddenly morphed into homo sapiens in the 1980s.He holds others to the same standards of language, showing mixed perplexity and amusement at the menu’s once-baked biscotti and noting that “biscotti” is Italian for “cooked twice.” And when I make...
...have existed as recently as 12,000 years ago, at the same time as modern man; in Liang Bua cave on the island of Flores, Indonesia. Researchers say the findings, published last week in Nature, give weight to the case for a new species, which they have dubbed Homo floresiensis. Last year the 18,000-year-old remains of a 1-m-tall woman with a braincase the size of a chimpanzee were discovered at the same site. Some experts remain skeptical, saying that the specimens are Homo sapiens, whose diminutive size may be the result of a genetic disease...
...about the discovery and its latest developments in yesterday’s edition of the journal Nature. Further testing will be done to prove that the collection of bones is from a distinct human species, according to Lieberman. These specimens have dispelled several prior conclusions about the ancestors of homo sapiens. Analysis of the Floresian residents revealed that a non-homo sapiens species of human lived at the same time as homo sapiens. This is contrary to the hypothesis that less evolved species of hominids, such as homo erectus and Neanderthals, went extinct more than 50,000 years...