Word: genus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sugi (genus: ganeshananthan), somewhat blurry. Sugi acts as Assistant Night Editor (ANE) for news on Tuesday nights, which are FM's production nights. She takes this very seriously. FM likes to try to keep the daily from coming out on Wednesday by using more than one computer at once. Luckily, Sugi huffs and puffs and manages to prevent this from happening...
...neither hate nor fear gays but would feel uncomfortable living with a gay student nonetheless. And some are probably devout Christians whose faith grounds their opposition to homosexuality, promiscuity, and the like. But the council bills, which fairly represent recent campus dialogue on this issue, classify all under the genus "homophobia," in effect equating Christians to bigots...
...COMMENT] May be an early form of H. habilis; if a distinct species, it's the earliest known member of our genus...
...larger braincase. So they named their hominid Australopithecus garhi (garhi means surprise in Afar). But the skull's intermediate anatomy and its age--about 2.5 million years--put it midway in both time and form between the most recent A. afarensis and the oldest known fossils of our own genus...
Just as australopithecus afarensis eventually gave rise to the genus Homo, so one species came to stand out among the Homo line and eventually led to modern humans. The fossil record is far too spotty to say how Homo habilis (handy man) and other members of its genus--H. rudolfensis, H. ergaster and H. erectus--were related, to what extent they overlapped or even whether they all represent distinct species. Many scientists believe, though, that it was H. erectus that was the ultimate victor, the direct ancestor of our own species...