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Two things make Origins more compelling than most science programs. The producers avoided the temptation to be encyclopedic and thereby to overwhelm viewers with information. And Johanson doesn't simply present facts. He shows how paleoanthropologists actually work, how they uncover fossils (the hard part) and how they analyze what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: The Origin of Our Species | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

Even on its tiptoes, the little creature stood hardly more than 4½ ft. tall. Its brain was no larger than a chimpanzee's. But unlike its apish kin, it had a clearly human characteristic. It could walk upright, probably as well as modern man. Its arms gathered food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ancient Ape | 6/21/1982 | See Source »

To a bemused modern reader, John Ruskin is yet another long-gone marvel, a species of featherless biped now extinct. This rare bird, born in 1819, was a gentleman of means and an amateur of genius, whose leisurely travels to Italy and Switzerland resulted in a vast outpouring of noblesse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stones of Ruskin | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

Since nature is cruel and destructive, he reasoned, man must be too. Committing a murder, in fact, is simply lending nature a helping hand. "What difference does it make to nature," asks a homicidal aristocrat in the novel Justine, "if a mass of flesh that is shaped like a biped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: He Drained the Dregs of Man | 7/12/1963 | See Source »

Putt yourself together, excellent biped-On page 71 you call a "cube" What should be a parallelepiped.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 8, 1957 | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

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