Word: aping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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More than 3 million years ago, a tiny female, part human and part ape, slumped to the mud of an East African lakeshore and died, her bones sinking deep into the soft ground. Eventually, the lake dried. The mud turned to rock and so, gradually, did her bones. She might have rested there undisturbed forever but for the roaring geologic forces that ripped the earth apart over the next 30,000 centuries, finally thrusting the long-buried fossil bones to the surface -- where American anthropologist Donald Johanson would find them in 1974. Named Lucy, after the Beatles song Lucy...
...earful of protests last week after a company magazine sent to all employees published this cartoon, in which Africa is represented by an ape. Abject company officials apologized for the seeming racist slur, which they said no editor had noticed...
Dwight cloaks social insecurity and class resentments under a manner that combines masculine swagger, noisy politesse and a need to ape -- and impose on Toby -- a poorly observed version of middle-class morality. Toby must have a paper route, but it is Dwight who pockets the profits. Toby must learn the manly art of self-defense, but mostly Dwight teaches him sucker punches and uses the lessons as an excuse to beat on the boy. De Niro's is a domineering performance, a star turn that is both comic and menacing, but it unbalances Wolff's story...
...moved nonchalantly away until the second chimp moved on. Once the interloper was gone, the first chimp opened the box to claim the food. The second chimp, however, had cleverly hidden himself just out of sight and triumphantly returned to snatch the bananas. There are enough examples of such ape trickery to suggest that perhaps Koko really was lying when she made the signs "Kate there...
...cover story was written and reported by TIME senior writer Eugene Linden, who has explored the field of animal intelligence for 20 years. He has authored several books on the subject, including Apes, Men, and Language, and Silent Partners: The Legacy of the Ape Language Experiments. "What strikes me is that so many humans seem offended by the notion of animal intelligence," says Linden, "as though it would devalue language and thought if we shared those abilities with other creatures." But just try to get a chimpanzee to take as good a picture of James Balog...