5/17/2016 On Intellectual Property Theft From C. Loring Brace's collection of papers, Evolution in an Anthropological View, p. 60 (thanks to R.D. Chrisjohn for sending it along): "My principal regret about writing the paper is an inadvertent omission. One of the figures who was invited to submit comments (and who did not do so) was Sherwood L. Washburn, now Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. After the paper appeared in print, Washburn wrote me in high dudgeon on March 23, 1964, beginning with "Dear Brace" and signing himself "Washburn."... In the midst of the invective in this and a subsequent letter of April 13, he had raised a very real and valid point. I had made the case that specific cultural developments such as cutting tools and the use of fire in food preparation had predictable consequences for the maintenance of particular aspects of robustness such as tooth size... As Washburn implied in his letters and references to his own published work, my examples appeared to be a focused application of suggestions concerning the importance of tools in influencing the general course of human evolution that he had previously made in print... He was absolutely right. I could only reply somewhat lamely that it was a shame that he had not responded in print when invited by Current Anthropology so that the issues could have been brought to the attention of the anthropological readership. In fact, his general recommendations had been a part of my own graduate education, and I had incorporated them so thoroughly into my own viewpoint that I had lost track of the specific identity of their source. Sherry Washburn was one of the major figures responsible for helping biological anthropology incorporate the dynamics of evolutionary biology after World War II, and this was just one among many points where his influence played an important role in steering the field in productive directions." 6/2/2016 "No scholar can hope to get along without belonging to a clique; if not, he will be criticized for everything he does- and then will see it stolen." - Stendhal, The Black and the Red