Word: hominids
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...making their persuasive case for Ramapithecus as the first hominid, Simons and Pilbeam dispute a competing claim by the Kenyan anthropologist, Louis Leakey. Two years ago Leakey announced that 20 million-year-old fossils that he had discovered near Africa's Lake Victoria and dubbed Kenyapithecus africanus belonged to the earliest known manlike creature (TIME, Feb. 3, 1967). After applying their dental tests' to casts of Leakey's prehistoric fragments, the Yalemen decided that Kenyapithecus lacked the characteristics of early man. Though Leakey still insists that Kenyapithecus is a hominid, most other scientists now believe that...
...radioactive decay in the lava surrounding the bone, Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology determined that the bone must be 2,500,000 years old. Since it is a piece of humerus, or upper arm, conforming remarkably to the skeletal structure of modern man, the Kanapoi hominid apparently lived 750,000 years earlier than Homo habilis, previously thought to be man's oldest direct ancestor known to have walked erect. Alas, the Kanapoi hominid probably didn't live very long. "The lake there teemed with crocodiles," said Patterson...
...fossil man, delivered a lecture here on the night of April 9th to a packed audience of students as well as a host of prominent anthropologists. Leakey discussed the significance of his recent discovery of a new species of man, Homo habilis, which is older than any other known hominid. His discovery necessitates an important revision of thought about human evolution...
Vercors' writing since the war has probed and worried that question-most notably in the bestselling You Shall Know Them (1953), which, like Sylva, examines man in terms of his relation to animals. The animals in the earlier novel were a species of hominid, subhuman, but capable of breeding with men-which Vercors used, as he uses his fox-lady, to exemplify his belief in the power of the aspiring will to change and transcend the natural, i.e., animal, condition...
...year-old hominid and his nutcracking progeny, the two cigarette buffs--these are the rungs on the ladder whose inevitable and is whatever lies beyond safety belts...