Word: wrangham
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...1960s, the contraceptive pill freed women to enjoy sex for its own sake. At the same time, greater tolerance of homosexuality signaled society's acceptance of nonreproductive sex of another sort. These changes are only continuations of a trend that started perhaps a million years ago. As Richard Wrangham, professor of anthropology at Harvard, points out, "Most mammals lose interest in sex outside a restricted mating period. For a female chimpanzee, copulation is confined to the times when she has a pink swelling on her rump. Outside those lusty periods, she would never think of trying to seduce a male...
Though he did not write a thesis, Bush will be graduating with honors in biological anthropology and is publishing a paper along with Professor of Anthropology Richard W. Wrangham and Cory L. Costanzo '99 in the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. The paper, which is about how predation pressures affect baboon group size, grew out of a research seminar Bush took his junior year...
...Wrangham, who has known Bush for two years, describes him as an "eager, efficient, cheerful and enthusiastic" student...
...think that one has any lesser demands in terms of the quality of the argument," Wrangham says. "The two areas I see being added are dramatic and aesthetic content...
...Wrangham says there is no stigma attached to writing trade books--the downside is just a matter of opportunity cost...