Word: apes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evolutional link between ape and man was less missing than mended last week, as two separate conversations between humans and chimpanzees took place...
Hearing that Castang also could talk with apes, an enterprising Toronto Star reporter went out to the Riverdale Zoo, had a keeper install a handset telephone in the cage of chimpanzees George & Josephine, put through a long distance call to Castang's Chicago hotel. With a "semi-scream," Castang summoned Josephine to the phone. At his whimpering mimicry of the chimpanzee mating call. Ape Josephine first looked startled, then so pleased that Ape George, becoming angry, shouldered his mate from the phone, pulled frantically at the cage's bars. With a sharp cough-like cry, Castang cursed George...
...ascribed Pithecanthroptis to the Pleistocene or Glacial Age, then shifted him to the preceding period, the Pliocene. Although extremely apelike, he was admitted to the human family by the skin of his primitive teeth, but Professor Dubois has changed his mind again, now pigeonholes the ancient creature as an ape related to the gibbons. Professor Dubois considers that all the original bones belonged to the same species; other authorities disagree with...
...years. Two conclusions which emerge with reasonable probability from the welter of anthropological confusion are: 1) that early man flowered in a number of different genera and species which became extinct before Homo sapiens appeared, and 2) that the common ancestor was a giant, arboreal ape related to the well-known fossil ape genus called Dryopithecus...
Lecturing in Manhattan at the annual dinner of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Dr. Earnest Albert Hooton, Harvard professor of anthropology, author of Apes, Men and Morons (TIME, Nov. 8), declared: "Man made himself out of the ape, partly by becoming an engineer. The danger now is that the engineers will make apes of all of us." When asked why the pockets of his lost & found overcoat contained fish-hooks, Col. Theodore Roosevelt explained: "I captured [them] from the New Deal. They had been using them to catch suckers...