Word: humaneness
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...jammed at rush hour as the highways leading to them. "The hard part isn't flying to Chicago, it's getting around on the ground," says a veteran airline pilot. "And the controllers are so rushed you don't ask for help." A big part of the problem is human error. The FAA says more than half of runway incursions are attributed to pilot mistakes. These include not following instructions, missing turns, even getting lost at an unfamiliar airport. An additional 25% of runway incursions result from controller miscues...
Wrangham plans to use this material in the Core's Science B-29: "Human Behavioral Biology," popularly known as "Sex." He was one of the course's three professors last fall and will take on greater teaching duties next fall after Professor of Biological Anthropology Irven DeVore's retirement...
...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...
...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...
Before this period, human ancestors inhabited the trees, and size differences between males and females were much more pronounced. Wrangham said that, anytime during the Homo period, after the harnessing of fire, if a human ancestor were to put on modern clothes, a hat, and strut down Manhattan, he would not be noticed...