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Dates: during 1970-1979
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But a few scientists have resisted this vision of man's family tree, and have proposed that the African apes and man branched off on their separate paths much more recently. Their evidence is not ancient bones, but what the University of California's Vincent Sarich calls a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Case for a Living Link | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

A reporter turning up at one of her lectures at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History noted that the speaker somehow managed to discuss museums, stones, stuffed birds, cave paintings, Cro-Magnon man, children, parents, grandparents, dinosaurs, whales, the possibility of life in outer space, education, the youth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Margaret Mead: 1901-1978 | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

From its first issue, featuring a cover story on Spiro Agnew, New Times has seldom been guilty of faintheartedness. The magazine quoted the racial slur that drove former Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz into early retirement, printed an unflattering profile of est's Werner Erhard that Esquire had found too...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Final Tribute | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

The professional man of letters, like the shepherd and the blacksmith, is a vanishing species, found mainly in the British Isles. William Plomer, who died in 1973 at the age of 69, was a notable specimen. He made his debut at 21 with Turbott Wolfe, a novel that Leonard and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Minor Master | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

To test whether insects could also be set aglow, Callahan and Mankin in their lab generated electric fields comparable to those produced during storms. They then confined within the fields several species of insects, including predatory stinkbugs and spruce budworms. The results were invariably the same: the bugs, consisting, as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pesky UFO's | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

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