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...Mary made what may have been her greatest find. Her team was re-exploring a site in Tanzania called Laetoli--40 years after Louis had incorrectly assumed that the absence of tools there implied that hominid fossils would not be found--when they discovered a trail of remarkably clear ancient hominid footprints impressed and preserved in volcanic ash. It was a stunning glimpse of the world 3.6 million years ago. If only Louis had lived...
...Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge, Mary Leakey finds the fossilized skull of a human ancestor who lived 1.8 million years...
...test this possibility, anthropologist Kristen Hawkes made quite a nuisance of herself among the hunting-gathering Hadza people of Tanzania, charting the hour-by-hour activities of 90 individuals, male and female, and weighing the children at regular intervals. The results, published in late 1997 and reported by Angier in detail, established that children did better if Grandma was on the case--and, if not her, then a great-aunt or similar grandma figure. This doesn't prove the grandma hypothesis for all times and all peoples, but it does strongly suggest that in the Stone Age family...
...have been used to feed countless hungry people as well as build schools, roads and hospitals in some of the poorest countries of the world. For the U.S. to waste so much money on a useless exercise only emphasizes the gap between rich and poor nations. LOREDANA LAWSON Zanzibar, Tanzania...
From the start, the research was dogged by controversy. As in many scientific studies, some of the women and babies--from Uganda, South Africa and Tanzania--received real medications while others got sugar pills. Normally such double-blind tests are considered unethical if an effective therapy exists...