Word: ancestors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...giant gorilla King Kong was never able to consumate his affection for his beloved Ann Darrow because it is not biologically feasible, but things might have turned out differently if he had been a chimpanzee. After early human and chimpanzee ancestors branched off from a common ancestor, they may have mated to create a hybrid species, according to a new study by researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard published in the journal Nature last week. The study also found that the divergence between humans and chimps occurred nearly a million years later than previously estimated...
...more than 200 million worshippers of all faiths, double the number just nine years ago. The inroads made by apocalyptic Christian cults in China's countryside have garnered more international attention, but the larger trend is the renaissance of Buddhism and folk religions, which blend Taoism, Confucianism, shamanism, ancestor reverence and local-deity worship into a potent mix of spirituality. More than half of the nation's believers follow these local faiths. "China's religious traditions are much longer than its Communist past," says Yang Li, an assistant professor of religion at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. "People still...
...cribbed them from Lou Reed and Television and so on), and the band's ska rhythms and martial drums come courtesy of the Clash. But singer-guitarist Alex Turner, guitarist Jamie Cook, drummer Matt Helders and bassist Andy Nicholson play with a swagger that obliterates any trace of ancestor worship. They aren't referencing anything as they fly through tunes like The View from the Afternoon; they're just playing as many hooks as possible, as fast and as cleanly as they...
...Numbers 160 million years Age of recently unearthed fossils belonging to a Guanlong wucaii in northwestern China-making the dinosaur the oldest-discovered ancestor of Tyrannosaurus...
...wait. The quaking pudding, a light, set-milk dessert, probably hasn't wobbled this deliciously since King Charles II beckoned Nell Gwynne to try a spoonful. The spring menu will feature a tangy lemon salad made from an antique variety of the fruit and a tart of bread-an ancestor of today's treacle tart. The panache with which the poster boy for futuristic food serves up these venerable dishes shows that while history repeats itself, Blumenthal sure doesn't. www.thehindsheadhotel.com