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...explodes that theory. "[It'd] go completely against the flow of human evolution," says Thorne. "This would undo everything that we are." Even if the island-dwarfing process did indeed shrink H. floresiensis, says Robert Martin, curator at the Field Museum in Chicago and author of a widely cited textbook on human evolution, the grapefruit size of the brain is too small. "Brains do not shrink proportionally to bodies in a species but remain relatively large," says Martin. "That's why the heads of small dogs, for example, are proportionally large for their bodies compared with larger dogs...
...Back in Afghanistan, the disaster at Zambar has become a textbook case for coalition forces of what can go wrong if a unit doesn't get its local intelligence right. A newly arrived U.S. lieutenant was briefed on the incident when he arrived at the Khost base two months ago. Back in 2002, he says, "we didn't understand that if somebody around here starts shooting, they aren't necessarily shooting at you. These people all have enemies." After studying reports of the incident, the lieutenant has concluded that in the chaos of battle, at night, and in rough, unfamiliar...
...Those Chinese who protest against the whitewashing of World War II events in Japanese textbooks have often been presented as a mindless mob. Suppose, however, that a German textbook claimed that Nazi actions during the war were justified as a defense against Jews and communists. There would understandably be a huge uproar across Europe. Japan's wartime atrocities were crimes against humanity comparable to those in Europe, yet they have been below our moral radar. John Butler Kidderminster, England...
Hubbard is also co-authoring a forthcoming introductory economics textbook, “Principles of Economics,” with Lehigh professor Anthony P. O’Brien...
...thinking about the welfare of their citizenry on all fronts and are realizing they need to make efforts to bring about a better standard of living through economic cooperation and development. Arvind A. Choudhari Belfast Those Chinese who protest against the whitewashing of World War II events in Japanese textbooks have often been presented as a mindless mob. Suppose, however, that a German textbook claimed Nazi actions during the war were justified as a defense against Jews and communists. There would understandably be a huge uproar across Europe. Japan's wartime atrocities were crimes against humanity comparable to those...