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Saturday's panel topics included the department's evolution, African-American music, African-American women, African-American art and literature, race in the 21st century, African-American religion, the Afro-Atlantic diaspora, the future of Afro-American Studies, and race and the economy.
Well, not to worry. As seductive as such extrapolations may be, they overlook what we know about how evolution works. In particular, they buy into the idea that evolution consists of a sort of generation-by-generation fine-tuning in each population as time passes. Under the benign guidance of...
Fact: no one will care about our current events. There will be no debate about gun control because both criminals and law enforcement officers will use missile launchers. There will be no media complaints about company mergers because one company will own all media. There will be no outcry over...
"The idea came to me while I was thinking about human evolution in preparation for my class, and I just happened to be at home staring at the fire," he said. He was planning for Anthropology 115: "Primate Evolutionary Ecology" in February last year.
"In a few minutes, I had sketched out the importance fire could play in human evolution," Wrangham said. "In a few days, I had checked on crucial dates that would make the idea plausible."