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Lizards & "Wurleys." The flat-nosed Aborigine, with his receding forehead and his skin burned bluish black by the sun, may be slow to respond to such unaccustomed attention. He is unrelated to any of the world's three major races. Some anthropologists, noting that his skullcap is much thicker...
Sir: Prexy Ronald Nairn of Prescott College [Sept. 23] acknowledges the enduring mystery of his own ignorance when he justifies the absence of education courses with the non sequitur, "We would love to teach education if we could find anyone who knew anything about it." Such Neanderthal thinking will earn...
Walker is invited to be Visiting Writer at Benedict Arnold University, located somewhere east of the Rockies, where some of the freshmen can hardly write their names in the dust with a stick, and where Scrabble, wife-swapping and Red-baiting are the faculty pursuits. With its Disneyland-cum-Mies...
No human fossils have been un earthed so far, nor does De Lumley think that any will be found. The scarcity of human fossils predating Neanderthal man is, in fact, one of the great archaeological blanks, making it difficult to reconstruct human life of hundreds of thousands of years ago...
When fully explored and analyzed, De Lumley's discovery may compel a drastic reassessment of the social organization and civilization of pre-Neanderthal man in Europe. Until now, working with the meager data available, scientists have been convinced that, unlike the men who inhabited the Riviera site, the creatures...