Word: center
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While these ancient footprints shed fresh light on our nearer ancestors, Anthropologist Elwyn Simons, director of Duke University's primate center, revealed new findings on more distant kin. Most scientists agree that both man and ape descended from a common ancestor, a beast called Dryopithecus (meaning tree ape), which appeared in Africa some 20 million years ago. But who, or what, preceded it? As far back as 1963, Simons, then at Yale, began uncovering in the wind-scoured Fayum desert region, southwest of Cairo, bones of a likely candidate: a small, fox-sized, tree-inhabiting primate, which he dubbed Aegyptopithecus...
...said the center has been "dormant" in such activities for several years, but that it plans to go "full force" in expanding this initial program...
...what members call an effort to revive its involvement with the local community, the Harvard-Radcliffe Afro-American Cultural Center today will launch a program that calls for Harvard students to work with Cambridge public-school children...
...program, which is being conducted in conjunction with the Cambridge Community Center, places 13 undergraduate members of the cultural center in volunteer jobs as tutors, "big brothers" and "sisters," and day-care helpers, Stephanie Bell '79, chairman of the center's activities committee, said yesterday...
Raymond McGuire '79, chairman of the center, said yesterday the program is a pilot for further social involvement outside the University...