Word: dryopithecus
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...Asia. Dryopithecus, a big forest ape that lived in the Siwalik hills of India in Miocene times, before the Glacial Age, is the common ancestor of man, the gorilla, the chimpanzee, and other primates. That is the conclusion of the staff of the American Museum of Natural Hostory, after more than a year's study of three fragments of the beast's jawbone discovered for the Museum by Barnum Brown (suspicious cognomen...
...with those of the Neanderthal and other primitive men, and nearly so with those of the Australian blacks and certain Indians, the most primitive of living races. Civilized men, after thousands of years of a soft, mainly agricultural diet, have a very different kind of dental pattern. In the Dryopithecus, the cusps had already expanded so that they met over the grooves, causing "tunnels," which are the potent causes of tooth decay in modern...