Word: apish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theory began to evolve when he noticed a distinction between anthropoid and apish mimicry: children can imitate such actions as shaving and shooting without using razors or guns; but apes cannot, or do not. Père Jousse decided that miming and gesturing came before writing; hieroglyphics, he believed, were not ideograms, but mimograms, representations of significant gestures...
...taxonomy is always arbitrary because species, genera and families tend to merge into one another. So many "missing links" have been found by paleontologists that an exact dividing line between humans and apes is almost nonexistent. Pithecanthropus erectus, the Javanese oldster regarded by most authorities as a very apish man, is called an apeman. In the past two years Dr. Robert Broom of Pretoria's Transvaal Museum has found in South Africa the fossil remains of two very manlike apes which have been called man-apes...
...original Pithecanthropus consisted of an apish skull, a very human thighbone, a few "ambiguous" teeth. Sinanthropus was first described to the world by Dr. Davidson Black on the basis of a single tooth. Later five skulls and eleven jawbones came to light at Choukoutien, but no thighbone...
China. The first skull of Peking Man was found in 1929 in limestone caves at Choukoutien, 20 mi. from Peiping. This apish oldster is now generally conceded to be 1,000,000 years old, most ancient of known human fossils. Last summer, two days before Sino-Japanese fighting broke out in north China, a native workman employed by the Rockefeller-endowed diggers at Choukoutien turned up an upper jawbone of Peking Man, containing six teeth. This was the first upper jawbone, although several skulls and lower jawbones had been found before. The new find was got safely to a museum...
...dangers, Mr. Lahr has to admit that in his anxiety he had been "making a mountain out of a Dunhill." His courage rises even higher when Mr. Overman drags out a small, moony-eyed calf which he says will be Bullfighter Lahr's first victim. It is while the apish comedian is stamping around making chests and defiantly crying: "I'm a machador, I'm a machador!" that his real opponent, a large fat steer, cautiously muzzles...