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...American leader of the expedition, Anthropologist Carl Johanson of Cleveland's Case Western Reserve University, rushed to Asfaw's find. "I recognized the fossil almost at once as one of the oldest human remains ever discovered." he recalls...
Beetle-Browed Brute. Johanson's conclusion is bound to cause controversy in the scientific community. Most anthropologists have been convinced that the first member of the genus Homo, or true man (as opposed to the hominids, or man-apes), was a beetle-browed, stoop-shouldered brute called Homo erectus, who appeared in Africa about a million or so years ago. But two years ago, Richard Leakey, following in the footsteps of his famed anthropologist father, the late Louis B. Leakey, undermined that theory. Digging near Kenya's Lake Rudolf, he uncovered fragments that were assembled into a nearly...
...Johanson's fossil, which he thinks may be 4 million years old. could push the history of man even further back. His evidence that the jawbone belonged to Homo rather than a hominid is probably based on subtle differences: slight nuances of size and shape in the fossil teeth. But Johanson is convinced that these teeth belonged to a full-fledged Homo, who probably used them to eat meat, which he obtained by "using tools, possibly bones, to kill animals." Furthermore, since there is recent geological evidence that Ethiopia's Awash Valley may once have been part...
Scandalized Scandinavians. While hanging on at Louisiana's tough Angola Penitentiary, Labat changed himself from a semiliterate hospital worker to something of a poet and painter. In 1963, Angola officials handed him a world fame of sorts by barring his correspondence with Mrs. Solveig Johanson, a Swedish housewife in Stockholm who had become interested in the case. One official claimed that Louisiana law forbade Negroes to correspond with whites. This was later revised by the statement that prison rules limited access to any prisoner on Death Row to his immediate family and his legal and spiritual counselors. The incident...
Also: Arthur S. Couch, lecturer on Social Relations; Curtis H. Jones, lecturer on Business Administration, Anne D. Ferry, lecturer on English General Education; Marshall D. man, research associate in the Research Center; Hiller B. Zobel Lawrence K. Wroth, research associate in Law; Julius G. Getman, Stanley Johanson, and Robert C. Berry, fellows...