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...million-year-old Archaeopteryx has apparently been dethroned by a specimen named Protoavis ("first bird"), which lived 75 million years before Archaeopteryx. Last week's announcement was based on two fragmentary fossil skeletons found in the arid badlands of western Texas in 1984 by Texas Tech University Paleontologist Sankar Chatterjee. They suggest that Protoavis was a contemporary of the earliest dinosaurs. "If the identification is correct," says Yale Paleobiologist John Ostrom, who has examined the crow-size remains, "it has to send us back to the drawing board...
...ethical purpose as the Corporation members profess to have. I don't accuse them of plagiarism, but the last time I read such self-serving hypocrisy on the subject was in a recent Times editorial authored by another gentleman famous for his compassion for the downtrodden, William F. Buckley. Sankar Swaminathan...
...Biraja Sankar Guha of Assam, India, who is studying anthropology in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, has been named for the Robert C. Winthrop Scholarship, assigned annually to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. He graduated from the University of Calcutta in 1912, where he received a Master's degree in 1915. In 1916-17 he was professor sociology and logic at Bangabashi College, Calcutta, and last year assisted in courses on anthropology at the University, which conferred a Master's degree...