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A&M professor to be on national TV
Anthropologist will appear
on childrens' science series
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By RUTH COCHRAN
Reporter
Dr. Vaughn Bryant, professor of
anthropology and biology, will be
displaying his expertise on national
television in the fall.
Bryant, who studies coprolites or
fossilized human excrement, is
filming a segment this week about
nutritious eating for “3-2-1 CON
TACT,” a daily science and technol
ogy series for eight to 12 year olds
airing on PBS.
Sometime in the fall, the series
will feature one week of programs
focusing on eating. Bryant will be
01702301 showcased in one of the
half-hour segments.
“They want to emphasize the
topic of food — to make children
more aware of what they eat,” Bry
ant said.
Bryant said he thought he was
chosen to film the segment because
his unusual occupation would catch
the attention of children.
“They’re using the novelty of
studying crap,” Bryant said, “to get
across the importance of nutrition.”
A crew from Children’s Tele
vision Workshop, creator of “3-2-1
CONTACT” and “Sesame Street,”
arrived Sunday in San Antonio to
meet with Bryant and drive to Del
Rio for filming in a nearby canyon.
The producers plan to re-create a
discovery of coprolites by Bryant.
Bryant said they will visit several la
trine sites in the canyon that are
10,000 years old.
“We have to set the archaeological
background,” Bryant said, “to get a
better understanding of who these
people were.”
After setting the background,
Bryant said the focus would switch
to prehistoric man’s diet.
“The people in these sites go back
almost 10,000 years,” Bryant said.
“They lived in an environment
which is very similar to ours.”
Because the environment has not
changed much, Bryant said he will
examine the types of plants prehisto
ric man ate including cactus, persim
mon and agave, which is similar in
appearance to an artichoke.
Bryant said he also will tell what
kinds of animals were on prehistoric
man’s daily menu. Mice and lizards
were a regular part of his diet be
cause they were so easy to catch, but
rabbits and deer were rarely eaten.
While at the latrine sites, the pro
ducers plan to film Bryant examin
ing coprolite samples for size, shape,
color, texture and outer coating.
The inspection is to make the dis
tinction between human and non
human feces.
The crew will then film Bryant in
the Texas A&M University Anthro
pological Research Laboratories
running coprolite analysis tests.
“What we’ll be doing,” Bryant
said, “is taking them to the lab and
showing them how we test these co
prolites.”
Bryant said he will explain how
the tests prove that the coprolites are
of human origin and how scientists
know what prehistoric man ate. The
tests will also show when they ate
and how they prepared their food.
The producers especially want to
show the seeds, hairs, feathers, in
sects and pollen grains found in co
prolites. These items cannot be di
gested by humans so they are
fossilized records of prehistoric
man’s diet.
After chemical analysis, compo
nents of the coprolite samples will be
examined under a scanning electron
microscope.
Bryant said examination with an
electron microscope will show how
scientists are able to identify pollen,
hair, seeds and plant crystals.
Photo by JOHN M
A&M professor Dr. Vaughn Bryant jokes with Mary Lopeza
Todd Rolle, hosts of television’s “3-2-1 Contact.”
Producers plan to recreate a pre
historic diet. Bryant will be filmed in
an A&M dining room or cafeteria
eating a lunch prepared with prehis
toric recipes.
Bryant said he will be eating
steamed cactus pads, aga
maybe some Sotof (similar:
ish bayonet) on the side. He
will probably pass on theti
lizards.
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EL PASO — Twin baby girls, born
attached from chest to belly, re
mained in an intensive care nursery
Wednesday while doctors tried to
determine if it is possible to separate
them, a hospital spokesman said.
Spokesman Gary Conwell said a
sonogram performed on the day-old
Siamese twins, born at Providence
Memorial Hospital, indicated they
share a portion of their hearts.
Doctors are conducting other
tests, including CAT scans and in
jecting a dye into one of the twins to
see how much is transmitted to the
other, Conwell said. The tests are to
determine the degree to which the
babies share internal organs.
“(Doctors) were pretty much aware of it prior to deliv
ery, though they didn’t know how they were attached. ”
— Gabe Silva, Providence Memorial Hqspital spokes
man.
“They think there’s some sharing
of the heart at the atrium chamber,”
Conwell said.
The girls were born weighing
about 6 pounds each at 7:37 a.m.
MST Tuesday. They were stable and
their mother was in “excellent” con
dition, Conwell said. The parents, an
El Paso couple, have requested that
their names not be released.
The twins were born by Caesa
rean section and it was the second
pregnancy for the mother, who al
ready has a young daughter, the
spokesman said. The father is “ad
justing well,” he said.
It is possible to determine if a pre
gnant woman is carrying Siamese
twins by doing an ultrasound exam
14 to 17 weeks after concept*
hospital spokesman GabeSil'
“They (doctors) wereprett
aware of it prior to delivery,
they didn’t know how they
tached," Silva said.
When tests are completed,
will decide if surgery is psi
if it can l>e done at Provident
local facility can’t handle tk
tion, it could be performed
jor medical center elsevvhert
state, Conwell said.
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