Word: aping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than an equally modern but turbulent foxtrot." Most fascinated by the music was a 7-year-old male named Peter. Dr. Thoma therefore went to work on Peter. The psychologist succeeded in fixing Peter's attention on a shiny metal knob, which he gradually withdrew, adroitly transferring the ape's gaze to his own intently staring eyes. In a monotonous voice the operator intoned. "Ooh-aah-ooh-aah." making "magnetic passes" from Peter's head down to his middle, while an attendant held the creature. Peter smirked a little at first as if he were invulnerable...
...anatomy at the University of Johannesburg. Laboriously scraping away the rocky mineral, Professor Dart uncovered a small, fragmentary skull with the face almost intact. The scientist quickly realized that he had in his hands one of the most important evolutionary finds since the discovery of Pithecanthropus erectus, the ape-man of Java. Geological evidence indicated that the skull, whose owner was christened Australopithecus, was 500,000 to 1,000,000 years...
...line by which man las arisen" was Dr. Robert Broom, paleontologist of the Transvaal Museum in retoria. Last July another blast in another limestone quarry, this time at Sterkfontein, turned up another fossil brain case. The manager, urged by Dr. Broom to keep his eyes peeled for a Taungs ape, landed this to the scientist. Feverish earch disclosed the upper face, the skull base, the right jawbone with three teeth, a detached molar. Last week in Nature appeared a letter from Dr. Broom describing his find, with three photographs and a drawing...
...whom posters asked IS HE MAN OR BEAST? Ali Baba's head resembled a speckled ostrich egg. His upper lip was hidden behind a sweeping pair of handle bar mustachios. His teeth were jagged and irregular. His short legs which sup ported his 205 Ib. wabbled like an ape...
...Apes. The Yale Laboratories of Primate Biology have a colony of about 40 chimpanzees which, because sexual and social experiments are constantly in progress, make frequent news. Last week Dr. Henry Wieghorst Nissen and Meredith P. Crawford ran off motion pictures showing altruism and co-operation among the apes. When one animal had food and another in an adjoining cage had none, the hungry one would beg by thrusting his hand through the bars. Often the other chimpanzee would share his food, especially if the two were well acquainted. Sometimes, however, the ape with food would simply shake hands with...