Word: aping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NAKED APE, A ZOOLOGIST'S STUDY OF THE HUMAN ANIMAL, by Desmond Morris. Wit and graceful prose make these speculations on the evolution of man engaging and at times provocative reading...
...happen that the ape who eventually developed the superintelligence was the one who in the beginning didn't have the sense to stay in the forests where he had adequate food and protection? If the ape-man became hairless so he could outrun his prey, why didn't the animals who outran the ape-man to escape him become hairless in the same process? Why should the ape-man evolve into a two-legged animal as a result of trying to run faster while the fleetest members of the animal kingdom remained quadrupeds? The answer is found...
...Please permit this particular naked ape to observe that 80% of women hold an infant in their left arm to leave the right hand free to minister to him. The 20% who hold the baby the other way around are lefthanded...
...NAKED APE, A ZOOLOGIST'S STUDY OF THE HUMAN ANIMAL, by Desmond Morris. Wit and graceful prose make these speculations on the evolution of man an engaging and at times provocative reading experience...
...them with some wildly imaginative concepts of his own, Morris traces man's sharp divergence from the other primates back about 15 million years. At that time, he says, a sudden change in climate occurred that sharply reduced the size of the forests and forced a still hairy ape to go foraging in the great open spaces...