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...which, although not accepted by many geologists, is nonetheless interesting. The author gives evidence that the continents have moved to their present position from the South pole at the rate of several feet a century. He then traces the evolution of life from the unicellular animal to the man-ape. "The Biography of Mother Earth" is written in a popular style and admirably illustrated. It gives ample space to explaining the evolution of species through the factors of environment as well as the causes of the extinction of the gigantic reptiles of the past. One cannot read the book without...
...First to ape Ballyhoo was Hullabaloo, published by George T. Delacorte Jr. (who also publishes Ballyhoo) in a halfhearted effort to forestall real competition (TIME, Nov. 16). Next came a disorderly little magazine called Tickle-Me-Too, published by Harold Hersey, who publishes magazines for Bernarr Macfadden, who had engaged in a bitter quarrel with Publisher Delacorte. Tickle-Me-Too was so inferior that Publisher Hersey promptly killed it (but in a few weeks he will offer another called Slapstick). Last week newsstands were dotted with Hooey...
...like a cupped hand, gave Australian anatomists imaginative play last week. The bone was found recently near the Jervois Mountains in southern Australia. The bone is the top of a female's skull. The hind part of the relic indicates that, from the rear, she looked like an ape with head canted slightly forward. She had very powerful neck muscles. Her walk was slouchy, but nonetheless habitually upright. Thus her hands were free and more nimble than an ape's. She probably could braid twigs, early step in the art which ends with fine embroidery. The front part...
...inside of this skull piece still indicates the shape and size of the ape-woman's brain. The brain was small...
Most probably she was not a human being. Neither was she an ape. Probably she was the remnant of a race which persisted while descendants of its ancestors' cousins developed on one side into gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans and gibbons, on the other side into white, yellow and black...