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Over 1.9 million years ago, human beings were still having dinner dates, according to a recently published article by Professor of Anthropology Richard W. Wrangham...
Anthropology Professor Richard W. Wrangham, who participated in a study of Pygmies in the Congo that DeVore directed, says DeVore refused to focus only on his own research while in the field...
...essence of his working style is to create an environment in which people flourish," Wrangham says. "He does so by making life interesting and fun, and by bringing people with different kinds of ideas together...
...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...
...Wrangham, who has known Bush for two years, describes him as an "eager, efficient, cheerful and enthusiastic" student...