Word: aping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dragging dead men out of their windows." Tom got away on his faithful horse, Silver. "Suddenly a million Indians rushed at him." He got away again. He got in an other fight, knocked his enemy down, asked "What's that guy's name," when "something like an ape was clutching at his throat. He was startled by a voice that sounded like Bill Jhonson's. He looked at the man and saw that it was Bill Jhonson...
...when Charles Darwin, armed with a mass of scientific facts, suggested that man had an ape ancestor, enthusiastic converts to his theory of evolution immediately pictured a great-grandfather-&-son development of gorilla or chimpanzee into Homo sapiens. Subsequent unearthing of scattered thighbones, skullcaps, jaws and teeth led to many diverging theories of the ape's transition, showed that evolution is as unstraightforward as the relationship of second cousins once removed, that it moves in zigzags, circles, spirals...
Regardless of theories, however, all contemporary anthropologists agreed that early man differs from anthropoid apes in posture, brain case and teeth. Plaster casts of skull interiors usually reveal faint lines made by convolutions of the brain. These are more developed in man than in ape. When chewing, the ape moves his jaw straight up and down. Man rotates his jaw. Hence there are decided differences between ape and man in the size and shape of their teeth, particularly the molars. Prehistoric human skeletons which anthropologists have pieced together demonstrate these differences in one respect or another. While possessing many apelike...
...browsed on the island of Java during the early Pleistocene period (Ice Age), 500,000 to 1,000,000 years ago. Dr. Eugene Du Bois, Dutch scientist wb discovered the remains in 1892, changed his mind about Pithecanthropus' genus several times, finally concluded that he was an ape. Britain's Sir Arthur Keith, however, world's greatest authority on fossil man, considers Pithecanthropus the earliest known form...
Last week, world-famous anthropologists at the Cambridge meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science listened with shock and bewilderment to the description of the anthropoid ape fossil which Dr. Robert Broom of the Transvaal Museum discovered in the South African Sterkfontein caves last fall. The ape, of the family Australopithecus transvaalensis, lived in the Pleistocene days, when Pithecanthropus and Sinanthropus were already beating down lesser men. Since South Africa was treeless, Australopithecus must have walked on the ground. Whether it walked human-fashion is not known, since the bones of the lower leg have not been...