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INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT GRANT FROM THE WENNER-GREN FOUNDATION FOR ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH

The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research will continue its Institutional Development Grant (IDG) after its launch in 2008. The IDG is intended to strengthen (or to support the development of) anthropological doctoral programs in countries where the discipline is underrepresented. The grant provides $25,000 per year, is renewable for a maximum of five years (total support of $125,000), and may be used for any purpose to achieve the academic development goals of the applicant department.

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Clash between patient care and profits
Article looks at how insurance companies influence eating disorder treatment

In a controversial article appearing in the June issue of Current Anthropology, Rebecca J. Lester (Washington University in St. Louis) explores how clinicians at an eating disorder treatment center cope when their treatment recommendations are undermined by managed care organizations.

The Secret to Chimp Strength
--Could be as much about brain as muscle, biologist says--

In an article to be published in the April issue of Current Anthropology, evolutionary biologist Alan Walker argues that humans may lack the strength of chimps because our nervous systems exert more control over our muscles. Our fine motor control prevents great feats of strength, but allows us to perform delicate and uniquely human tasks.

December 2003

Volume 44, Number 5
Current Anthropology Volume 44, Number 5, December 2003
© 2003 by The Wenner‐Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. All rights reserved
0011-3204/2003/4405-0007$1.00
DOI: 10.1086/379263
Reports

The Oldest Hominid Habit? Experimental Evidence for Toothpicking with Grass Stalks1

Leslea J. Hlusko

Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, 109 Davenport Hall, MC‐148, 607 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, Ill. 61801, U.S.A. (hlusko@uiuc.edu). 30 vi 03

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  • I thank Tim D. White for his assistance with this project, and especially his palliative toothpicking that inspired it. I also thank Henry Gilbert of the Laboratory for Human Evolutionary Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, for help with the figures.

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