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That suggests that females mated preferentially with smaller-fanged males. In order for females to have had so much power, Lovejoy argues, Ar. ramidus must have developed a social system in which males were cooperative. Males probably helped females, and their own offspring, by foraging for and sharing food, for example - a change in behavior that could help explain why bipedality arose. Carrying food is difficult in the woods, after all, if you can't free up your forelimbs by walking erect. (Read "Ida: Humankind's Earliest Ancestor! [Not Really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ardi Is a New Piece for the Evolution Puzzle | 10/1/2009 | See Source »

Deducing such details of social behavior is, admittedly, speculative - and several researchers are quick to note that some of the authors' other major conclusions need further discussion as well. One problem is that some portions of Ardi's skeleton were found crushed nearly to smithereens and needed extensive digital reconstruction. "Tim [White] showed me pictures of the pelvis in the ground, and it looked like an Irish stew," says Walker. Indeed, looking at the evidence, different paleoanthropologists may have different interpretations of how Ardi moved or what she reveals about the last common ancestor of humans and chimps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ardi Is a New Piece for the Evolution Puzzle | 10/1/2009 | See Source »

...wrote that to give to Harvard is to “offer more pie to a portly fellow while the gaunt and hungry press their faces to the window.” Rather, he argues, if donors truly want to “promote education as a form of social justice,” they should give their money to community colleges, all-black colleges, smaller Catholic schools, and the like...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Don’t Discourage Donors | 10/1/2009 | See Source »

...most positive organizations that can be found in society, with contributions ranging from groundbreaking academic research to educating many of our nation’s leaders. With perhaps the most generous financial-aid initiative of its kind, the university has actively transformed itself from an enclave of the American social establishment into a vibrant intellectual community filled with individuals from the around the country and across the globe, an instrument of achieving (at least a small part) of the social mobility so central to the American mythos. Moreover, it is a fallacy to conclude that the organization with the most...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Don’t Discourage Donors | 10/1/2009 | See Source »

Tables represented a wide range of women’s organizations, including social clubs, service groups, and pre-professional societies, such as Harvard Undergraduate Women In Business...

Author: By Stephanie B. Garlock, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Groups Link Up at Women's Fair | 10/1/2009 | See Source »

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