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...Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge marked the beginning of a startling discovery that was formally unveiled last week by White and Johanson. The team of ten U.S. and Tanzanian scientists unearthed 302 fossil bones and teeth that have yielded a more complete picture of modern humans' earliest direct ancestor, Homo habilis. The new material could alter the way scientists interpret human evolution...
...southern Africa the climate was cooler than it is today. Giraffes, hyenas and baboons abounded, along with now extinct giant horses and hartebeests and buffalo with 13-ft. horn spans. Neanderthal man had not yet emerged, but intelligent beings already roamed the savanna, upright creatures known today as archaic Homo sapiens, who could fashion crude axes, picks and cleavers out of stone. On a clear night 170,000 years ago, one of these ancestors of man may have looked up at a milky band of stars stretching across the sky, his eyes pausing briefly on a patch of light that...
...been for awhile. Kept within limits, wanton violence is a healthy and useful alternative study break. It exercises the body and clears the mind. Correctly applied, violence satisfies the primal needs of almost every form of homo academicus. Are you a budding Marxist? Destruction rids your suite of useless capitalist acquisitions...
...word comes from the Latin for slimy liquid, stench, poison -- and the connotation is appropriate, not only for the AIDS virus but for the untold number of other varieties that have been preying on animals and plants since long before Homo sapiens appeared on earth. Indeed, the current AIDS epidemic is a grim reminder that these infinitesimal, bizarre creatures may be mankind's deadliest enemy. And scientists are warning that a perennial viral threat, the upcoming flu season, could be far more dangerous than usual -- more evidence that these tiny foes are responsible for a large share of human suffering...
...many who confront this idea, he can be nostalgic in his definitions. The hunter- gatherers of the ice age, for example, are idealized as the beneficiaries of a golden period. Animals were considered edible but equal; protein was plentiful, and work hours fewer than they would ever be when Homo sapiens organized into agricultural communities...