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...Raymond Dart, the South African anthropologist, found a startlingly different skull embedded in a piece of limestone from a quarry at Taung?Tswana for "place of the lion"?about 120 kilometers (75 miles) north of Kimberley. Dart determined that the skull had come from a five-year-old primate (the order of mammals that includes humans, apes and monkeys) who had lived on the threshold of humanity. Still, he recognized that the creature was even more primitive than Java man. He named it Australopithecus africanus, or the southern ape of Africa. The skull displayed an odd blend...
...unbranching line of descent ?Australopithecus, Homo erectus, modern man?one following the other in logical order. Now all that has changed. "We can no longer talk of a great chain of being in the 19th century sense, from which there is a missing link," says Phillip Tobias, 51, Dart's successor as professor of anatomy at the University of the Witwatersrand medical school in Johannesburg. "We should think rather of multiple strands forming a network of evolving populations, diverging and converging, some strands disappearing, others giving rise to further evolutionary development...
Penn at Harv Yale at Prince Brown at Dart Colum at Corn Season's Record MIKE SAVIT Harvard, 20-8 Yale, 16-7 Brown, 21-17 Columbia, 31-30 22-6 (.786) ROB SIDORSKY Harvard, 15-0 Yale, 27-17 Brown, 20-17 Columbia, 35-27 20-8 (.714) DAVE CLARKE Harvard, 20-17 Yale, 28-17 Dartmouth, 21-17 Columbia, 28-24 20-8 (.714) JOHN DONLEY Penn, 24-20 Yale, 35-14 Brown, 21-20 Cornell, 28-27 20-8 (.714) BILL SCHEFT Penn, 17-14 Yale, 28-10 Dartmouth, 28-24 Columbia...
Harv at Brown Yale at Corn Dart at Colum Prince at Penn Season's Record MIKE SAVIT Harvard, 21-14 Yale, 31-20 Dartmouth, 17-16 Princeton, 16-101 20-4 (.833) ROB SIDORSKY Harvard, 28-14 Yale, 23-15 Columbia, 33-31 Princeton, 17-10 19-5 (.792) DAVE CLARKE Harvard, 17-14 Yale, 17-10 Dartmouth, 28-17 Penn, 14-13 17-7 (.708) JOHN DONLEY Brown, 24-19 Yale, 42-20 Dartmouth, 38-21 Princeton, 17-16 17-7 (.708) BILL SCHEFT Harvard, 14-10 Yale, 28-24 Dartmouth, 21-17 Penn...
Prince at Harv Penn at Yale Corn at Dart Brown at Holy C Season's Record...