Professor and Chair of the Department of Linguistics, Andy Cowell, is one of the founders of the new,a destination for interdisciplinary origins studies. Professor Cowell was quoted in Today about atalk he gave connecting Polynesian and Arapaho origin narratives to actual theories coming out of anthropology, archeology, and the sciences:“If you take these stories literally,” Cowell says, “they don’t necessarily fit well with scientific data. But in a more sophisticated, metaphorical way, they often broadly overlap with scientific views of how origins come about.”
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