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    61. quoted by Melvin Konner in The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the

    Human Spirit, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1982, p. 311.  When he wrote

    this amazingly encyclopedic volume on the biological underpinnings of human

    behavior, Melvin Konner was an associate professor at Harvard University.  He

    holds degrees in biological anthropology and medicine.  I owe the entire

    comparison of Watson's attitudes with those of the !Kung to his work.

    62. Melvin Konner, The Tangled Wing, p. 313.

    63. David P. Barash, The Whisperings Within, p. 43.

    64. Marvin Harris, "India's Sacred Cow," in James P. Spradley and David W.

    McCurdy, Conformity and Conflict: Readings in Cultural Anthropology, Little, Brown

    and Company, Boston, 1986, pp. 208-219.  Marvin Harris, "The Origin of the

    Sacred Cow," Cannibals and Kings: the Origins of Cultures, Vintage Books, New

    York, 1977, pp. 211-232.  Marvin Harris, "Mother Cow," Cows, Pigs, Wars and

    Witches: The Riddles of Culture, Vintage Books, New York, 1978, pp. 6-27.

    Actually, the Arab scholar Abu Raihan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni, who

    traveled extensively in India  during the 11th century, anticipated Harris' economic

    explanation of cow-worship by over 900 years. See Abu Raihan Muhammad ibn

    Ahmad al-Biruni, Albiruni's India, Edward Sachau trans., Ainslie T. Embree, ed.,

    W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1971, p. 152.  For al-Biruni's background, see

    Ainslie Thomas Embree, ed., Encyclopedia of Asian History,  Charles Scribner's

    Sons, New York, 1988, Vol. I, p. 164.

    65. "The Three Worlds of Bali," written by and based on the research of J. Stephen

    Lansing, Ph.D., produced and directed by Ira R. Abrams, for the Odyssey television

    series, co-produced by Public Broadcasting Associates and the University of

    Southern California, 1981.  John Reader, Man On Earth, pp. 69-72.  Jane E.

    Stevens, "Growing Rice the Old-Fashioned Way, with Computer Assist,"

    Technology Review, January 1994, pp. 16-18.

    66. Leibnitz felt that the process of working out the structure of possible worlds was

    the very essence of mathematics.  (Per Heinz Pagels, The Dreams of Reason: The

    Computer and the Rise of the Sciences of Complexity, Simon and Schuster, New

    York, 1988,   p. 302.)  For an interesting sense of what a curved four-dimensional

    world is like, see Edwin A. Abbott's 19th century classic Flatland: A Romance of

    Many Dimensions, Barnes & Noble Books, New York, 1983.

    67. Albert Einstein, The Meaning of Relativity, Fifth Edition, Princeton University

    Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1955, pp. 64, 103-104.  Max Jammer, The History of

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