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...press conferences in Washington and Nairobi, Leakey and Walker last week announced that they had unearthed the remains of a male specimen of Homo erectus. The hominid, given a catalog number of WT 15000, was one of a group that was directly ancestral to man and is known to have used fire and lived in caves as well as on the plains of Africa. Members of the species migrated as far as Asia, where the cranium of the so-called Java Man was discovered in 1891 and the Peking...
...isolated from the influence of other societies, had been culturally trapped in the Stone Age. But recent studies of skeletons reveal the aborigines as a far more ancient people. There appears to be evidence from bone structure of two distinct migrations of modern man's predecessor, Homo erectus, to Australia some 40,000 years ago, one from Java and the other from China...
...British army during World War II were perfectly preserved. Seeking signs of earlier inhabitants, the team dug at sites along the banks of hidden riverbeds shown by the new radar maps. Their findings: tools and other artifacts presumably used as long ago as 200,000 years by Homo erectus, one of modern man's ancestors...
...study also cites a Greek tossil known as Petrilona, which the scientists say is a link between the species Homo erectus and the modern Homo sapiens...
...mass entertainment is but a blip on the screen of evolution; yet the process of changing Homo erectus into Homo sedentarius is well under way. We sit; we watch; we listen. We sit, talk and read about what we have seen and heard. As a drama critic and former literary director of England's National Theater, Kenneth Peacock Tynan knows what keeps readers and audiences in their seats. He did, after all, conceive and produce Oh! Calcutta! Tynan can be glib, self-serving, tricky and loosely digressionary. But he is never dull. At 52, the graying provocateur describes himself...