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Albert's music is not simply a commentary on its sources, however; it is a transformation of them. "I seek a new synthesis: to find new relations between old things," he once said. "I want to form a continuum with the past, not ape it." As Albert becomes part of the past, the proof of his accomplishment is that he did exactly that...
...They were impressed by how closely we could ape their form," he said. "We sent them a couple copies to show what was done....They thought it was funny...
...hominid had some human characteristics -- most notably, she walked on two legs rather than four -- but skull and tooth fragments indicated she was somewhat apelike as well. She fit nicely into the shared-ancestor theory first put forward by Charles Darwin and supported by modern comparisons between human and ape proteins and DNA. The divergence between the ape and human lines, argued the biochemists, came somewhere between 4 million and 6 million years ago. And some paleontologists predicted that as hominid species were discovered from periods closer and closer to the time of the actual split, they should be even...
...representatives kicked their electoral juggernaut into high gear. Anyone who passed through Tercentenary Theater Thursday morning was treated to the rather persuasive endorsement of a sign emblazoned with the message "Vote Yes on U.C. Referendum." Its bearer embodied all the credibility of our august representatives--a fellow in an ape suit...
While Dubois didn't find anything like Lucy, he discovered some intriguingly primitive fossils, a skullcap and a leg bone, in eroded sediments along the Solo River in Java. They looked partly human, partly simian, and Dubois decided that they belonged to an ancient race of ape-men. He called his creature Anthropopithecus erectus; its popular name was Java man. Over the next several decades, comparable bones were found in China (Peking man) and finally, starting in the 1950s, in Africa...