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A discussion with James Boylan, founder of the Columbia Journalism Review, on journalistic lies and ethics. NYU paleoanthropologist Katerina Harvati explains her recent startling findings that suggest that Neanderthals were not the ancestors of modern human beings. The findings potentially put to rest the decades-long debate over human origins. And bestselling author Anita Shreve shares her latest novel, All He Ever Wanted.
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James Boylan
James Boylan talks about the ethics of journalism. Boylan taught journalism at Columbia from 1957 to 1979, founded the Columbia Journalism Review and served as a Pulitzer Prize juror; he’s also the author of the recent book Pulitzer's School: Columbia University's School of Journalism, 1903-2003.
Katerina Harvati
Katerina Harvati led a team of anthropologists in a recent study examining the skulls of modern humans and Neanderthals. They found strong evidence that Neanderthals differed so greatly from Homo sapiens that they may be a different species.
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Anita Shreve
Anita Shreve is one of America’s bestselling novelists. Her latest, All He Ever Wanted, spans three decades from 1899 to 1933 and is set in a fictional New England college town named Thrupp.
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