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...bone fragments discovered in a cave at Choukoutien, China, during the 1920s established the existence of yet another early ancester, Peking man.* These discoveries helped to convince the remaining skeptics that the earlier finds were not the remains of a freak ape or a deformed human. The ancient, erect-walking creatures had apparently been plentiful and widely distributed; it now seemed indisputable that modern man had evolved from more primitive ancestors. But still not even those who acknowledged his age had any clear notion of man's antiquity. Even the evolutionists saw the whole course of human development...
...much more than a meter tall, with a brain capacity about a third that of modern man. Lucy's skeleton gave scientists their best clues yet to the proportions of Australopithecus, and revealed her to be surprisingly short-legged. But the find left no doubts that she walked erect. The shape of her pelvis showed clearly that she was bipedal...
...natural selection favored those of his genus who could stand up; an erect position enabled them to see over the tall grass to spot and hunt their prey?and to see and escape the carnivores that preyed on them. Thus they were able to survive longer and produce more offspring, who shared their physical characteristics. After many generations of selection, the savanna-dwellers had evolved into upright-standing animals distinctly different from the forest-dwelling relatives they had left behind...
...play's most moving scene occurs at the very outset. A wheelchair-ridden Roosevelt, paralyzed by polio in 1921, painfully attempts to stand erect without supports of any kind. Grimacing in agony, Roosevelt hesitantly rises from the chair, straightens his posture, and...does it. The significance of the accomplishment does not go unnoticed. Confident of his ability to stand firmly and address an audience, Roosevelt agrees to enter the 1928 New York gubernatorial race, embarking on a path that would lead to the White House four years later...
Regulation. Carter did not erect the network of transportation, labor, safety and environmental regulations that many businessmen feel is strangling them, and his criticisms of the abuses of Big Government during the primary campaign led some to believe that he would make the regulations less onerous. Now they can see no sign that he has or will. CEA Chairman Schultze contends that the Administration has brought about some improvement in the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which had gained well-deserved notoriety for enforcing niggling rules. That is news to executives, who find OSHA as petty-minded as ever...