Word: apes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rival editor called him a "powdered ape" who knocked down a young girl and stole her hair for his wig. Another libelously linked him with the "Mohawks," a gang of London roughnecks who rolled stray females in barrels and cut off the noses of wandering drunks. Actually he seems to have been an obscure, spry, spare little man with a "brown complexion and dark brown-coloured hair ... a hooked nose, a sharp chin, grey eyes and a large mole near his mouth...
...human species the male is more logical than the female. He is also more zoological. Beyond that the contrast ceases, for both are descended from the ape, both think they could write a great book if they only had the time, and both think they could act if they only had the opportunity. The following are typical extracts from any prominent producer's correspondence...
...teeth of Plesianthropus and Paranthropus, Dr. Gregory found an extraordinary mixture of human and apelike features. The general pattern seemed closely related to the dentition of Dryopithecus, a celebrated extinct ape. Most anthropologists believe man descended from a generalized type of Dryopithecus...
...South African teeth, Dr. Gregory also found connections with Peking Man, the orangutan, and Sivapithecus, a manlike fossil ape discovered many years ago in India. The geological character of the ground, however, indicated that Dr. Broom's creatures lived relatively late in the Glacial Age, by which time definitely human types such as Peking Man, Piltdown Man and Heidelberg Man had already appeared. Plesianthropus and Paranthropus thus appeared as laggard survivors of a much earlier evolutionary spurt-"conservative cousins of man," says Dr. Gregory, "and progressive cousins of the modern apes...
...small-brained . . . man-apes of South Africa," observed Dr. Gregory, "now add their mute testimony that man, like his less ambitious cousins, the modern anthropoid apes, is a descendant of the late Tertiary dryopethicine ape stock of Europe, Asia, and Africa." In Dr. Gregory's opinion, indubitable apes evolved into indubitable humans during a profound structural upheaval compassed within the past ten or twelve million years...