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TRUTH ABOUT BOYS AND GIRLS, THE
Recent brain research seems to explain why "boys will be boys" and "girls will be girls." Does this mean our kids are destined to play out gender...
Working Mother, 05/01/09 by Small, Meredith F · More from publication -
Captivated
I'm sitting on a bench in New York City's Central Park, waiting for the zoo to open. I have spent years observing macaque monkeys in the field, but...
Natural History, 11/01/03 by Meredith F. Small · More from publication -
So near and yet so far: yes, we're primates. But how much does that tell us about our behavior?
The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit, by Melvin Konner (Times Books) The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the...
Natural History, 06/01/02 by Meredith F. Small · More from publication -
String theory: the tradition of spinning raw fibers dates back at least 28,000 years
Wandering one day through the Museums Hall of South American Peoples, I noticed a case with the label "Amazonian Rain Forest." Against the backdrop...
Natural History, 04/01/02 by Meredith F. Small · More from publication -
Return to Nisa
Return to Nisa, by Marjorie Shostak (Harvard University Press, 2000; $24.95) Return to Nisa, by Marjorie Shostak (Harvard University Press, 2000;...
Natural History, 02/01/01 by Meredith F. Small · More from publication -
Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman
Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman, by Marjorie Shostak (Harvard University Press, reprint, 2000; $16.95) Nisa: The Life and Words of a...
Natural History, 02/01/01 by Meredith F. Small · More from publication -
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Hunters and Gatherers
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Hunters and Gatherers, edited by Richard B. Lee and Richard Daly (Cambridge University Press, 1999; $125) The...
Natural History, 02/01/01 by Meredith F. Small · More from publication -
Island of the Apes
How I survived reality TV How I survived reality TV I may be a card-carrying academic with a Ph.D. in anthropology, but I like trashy TV shows...
Natural History, 09/01/00 by Meredith F. Small · More from publication -
Kinship Envy
Musings on the ties of blood and marriage Musings on the ties of blood and marriage On the left-hand side of the entrance to the African...
Natural History, 03/01/00 by Meredith F. Small · More from publication -
Analyze This
In the cause of conservation, everything from caviar to rhino dung is grist for the DNA laboratory. In the cause of conservation, everything from...
Natural History, 10/01/99 by Meredith F. Small · More from publication
