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...virgin site-it's completely intact. It's great art," exulted Jean Clottes, an adviser to the French Culture Ministry and a leading authority on prehistoric art. It has also reopened some of the oldest and least settled of questions: When, how and above all why did Homo sapiens start making...
Though the dates are vastly generalized, most prehistorians seem to agree that art-communication by visual images-came into existence somewhere around 40,000 B.P. That was about the time when Cro-Magnons, Homo sapiens, reached Ice Age Europe, having migrated from the Middle East. Some experts think the Cro-Magnons brought a weapon that made Neanderthals an evolutionary has-been: a more advanced brain, equipped with a large frontal lobe "wired" for associative thinking. For art, at its root, is association-the power to make one thing stand for and symbolize another, to create the agreements by which some...
...your reaction to a film about gay teens is, "More teen angst," or, "Another homo movie," director Gregg Araki has beat you to it. Araki uses those same words in the introductory captions to his "Totally F***ed Up," an unusual film about six young gay friends in Los Angeles...
...fellow members of the species Australopithecus afarensis were the oldest known members of the human family. No more: at 4.4 million years of age, the newly unearthed Australopithecus ramidus is the closest link yet (no longer missing) to the common ancestor of apes and humans. A second major find: Homo erectus, the first of Lucy's descendants to leave Africa, made that move about 800,000 years earlier than had been thought. Anyone want an obsolete paleontology book, cheap...
Chandler Burr, a freelancer writing a book on the biology of homo sexuality, said the Family Research Council, a conservative think tank, uses psychiatrist William Byne's critical review of the data on a possible genetic basis for homosexuality as support for their contention that it is chosen, and hence mutable...