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...another: his first book, Black Gold of the Sun: Searching for Home in England and Africa, came out this month. It's an engaging memoir-cum-travelogue about a 2002 trip to explore his roots in Ghana. To his shame and disgust, he found that one of his ancestors was a slave trader, a discovery that both shook his world and, paradoxically, freed him from it. "To be honest," he acknowledges quietly, "I haven't really come to terms with it. It's a very salient daily reminder of the fact that there's no such thing as black...
...Pygmy?a short but otherwise normal version of Homo sapiens you still find in equatorial Africa and pockets of Southeast Asia?but a member of an entirely new species whom its discoverers named Homo floresiensis. This species, say the scientists, probably branched off from Homo erectus, the commonly accepted ancestor of Homo sapiens. The news meant that the two different human species H. sapiens and H. floresiensis had been living parallel lives on earth at the same time. (The existence of H. sapiens dates back 250,000 years.) The story made headlines worldwide?TIME covered it last November, and National...
...residents could indeed be classified as Pygmies (the height threshold is 150 cm or shorter). Jacob measured more than 70 villagers and says 80% of them qualified. The theory that Thorne, Jacob and other like-minded anthropologists are propagating is that the Liang Bua female was an ancestor of a Rampasasa villager and a Pygmy, but that she suffered from microcephaly, a condition that causes abnormally slow skull growth. Says Jacob: "They say they have eight specimens. But there is only one skull and that could be microcephalic. The rest could just be Pygmies and that is even more likely...
Richard goss / anglia press agency After decades of experimentation, the world's first black hyacinth, Midnight Mystique, has arrived. The three "ancestor" bulbs whose genes helped create the dusky shoot of bell-shaped florets were bought for over $93,000 each. But the fashionable flower promises to recoup that investment and then some. Bulbs will sell for $15 each - over 10 times the norm for hyacinths - and gardeners worldwide are already clamoring for the dark side of the bloom...
...word “garden” as a link to the arena’s long-lost ancestor is half-hearted and feeble. “Garden” doesn’t exactly conjure up images of gracefully flowing industrial lines, unadorned steel exteriors, and distinctly 90s-era architecture. But then again, the words “TD Banknorth” don’t really conjure up anything at all. At least “FleetCenter” sounded streamlined and quick. TD Banknorth draws a blank for pretty much everyone, except for those who know that...