Word: genera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taxonomy is always arbitrary because species, genera and families tend to merge into one another. So many "missing links" have been found by paleontologists that an exact dividing line between humans and apes is almost nonexistent. Pithecanthropus erectus, the Javanese oldster regarded by most authorities as a very apish man, is called an apeman. In the past two years Dr. Robert Broom of Pretoria's Transvaal Museum has found in South Africa the fossil remains of two very manlike apes which have been called man-apes...
...Admission to the human family-the family of hominidae-does not include a label as Homo sapiens, the species in which all modern men are grouped. Pithecanthropus and Sinanthropus not only belong to different species but to different genera. Such later types as the Neanderthal and Heidelberg men belong to the same genus as modern man but to different species. First indubitable representatives of Homo sapiens were the tall, artistic Cromagnons who flourished in Europe some 25,000 years ago, after the Neanderthalers had disappeared...
...have lived somewhere near the beginning of the Pleistocene. One figure given for their ages is 500,000 years; another is 1,000,000 years. Two conclusions which emerge with reasonable probability from the welter of anthropological confusion are: 1) that early man flowered in a number of different genera and species which became extinct before Homo sapiens appeared, and 2) that the common ancestor was a giant, arboreal ape related to the well-known fossil ape genus called Dryopithecus...
...Check List of the Birds of the World", Volume '3, by James Lee Peters '13, Curator of Birds. $3.50. The third of a series giving a compete up-to-date list of all known birds according to their generic limits. The book covers 142 genera and 1675 forms. Published April...
Many of the fossils brought back from Brazil are of genera never before seen by man. One of these, a delicately boned lizard, about fifteen inches long, belongs to the order of thecodonts, whose evolution developed some of the greatest dinosaures. Another specimen, an oddly crushed reptile skull, is believed to be chasmatosaurid, belonging to a carnivorous alligator type, probably about twelve feet long. Other new animals were found in the cynodont, dicynodont, and rhynchosaur groups...