Word: extinct
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...Everyday, Jaclyn Smith and Joe Boxer, the sales pitch goes, the two perennial retail losers just might create a winning formula. On the other hand, by combining two badly managed retail dinosaurs into one, wags say, the companies may simply save themselves some bankruptcy fees when they inevitably go extinct...
...Africa but had spread all the way to Southeast Asia by 1.8 million years ago (the celebrated Java Man was the first to be discovered). Previous excavations in central Flores had already uncovered primitive stone tools, dating to about 800,000 years ago, mixed in with fossils of an extinct species of dwarf elephant known as Stegodon...
...direct, unbranching line of descent ... Now all that has changed ... While his Australopithecus cousins foraged or scavenged, Homo habilis began to make tools and to hunt. Both actions accelerated his evolution ... "There have been thousands of living organisms," [Leakey] says, "of which a very high percentage has become extinct. There is nothing, at the moment, to suggest that we are not part of that same pattern...
Together, the prints and texts tell the story of a nearly extinct way of life, documented by the racially charged scientific approach to anthropology that dominated the pre-World War II period...
...exhibit that opened at the Peabody Museum Wednesday offers snapshots not only of a fascinating way of life now gone, but also of a method of racial anthropology just as extinct...