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...teeth of Plesianthropus and Paranthropus, Dr. Gregory found an extraordinary mixture of human and apelike features. The general pattern seemed closely related to the dentition of Dryopithecus, a celebrated extinct ape. Most anthropologists believe man descended from a generalized type of Dryopithecus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ape-Men and Prigs | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

Archaeologists can look forward to piecing together in detail in the future the million or so years of human prehistory following man's evolution from the ape, Donald Scott, director of the Peabody Museum, said yesterday in his annual report...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCIENCE MAY REVEAL STORY OF EVOLUTION | 1/11/1939 | See Source »

...Consensus of anthropologists is that man is descended from a generalized type of Dryopithecus, an extinct ape whose fossil remains have been widely found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pituitary Master | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

Ancestor Louis is commonly recognized as the greatest professor the University ever had in zoology. As the foremost figure in American science Louis bitterly fought the ideas which Darwin gave to the world about the evolution of man from the ape...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOWELL FORUM TREATS OF DARWINIAN THEORY | 12/16/1938 | See Source »

...citizen after his retirement from the sea to Connecticut in 1925, big, blond, 57-year-old William McFee has brooded constantly over the misfortune that Americans (unlike Englishmen) have no solidified caste system. As a result, he says, the U. S. masses are forever filled with diseased aspirations to ape the rich, and the U. S. rich are forever uneasy in their "fear of revolt and the destruction of their ordered existence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Class Romance | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

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