Word: homo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Where else but the Big Apple has that trail creature called homo sapiens better succeeded in taming the harsh elements of nature and constructing a metropolis in which the dangers of the natural environment have been exchanged for the dangers of the built environment? This conflict between man and nature leads to several interesting questions. Which is inherently more dangerous, a hurricane or trying to go for the last empty seat on an "A" train to Brooklyn? Would not trees be better served with a lightweight and washable covering of Orlon instead of the traditional but greatly outmoded bark...
...have $ extinguished itself. Among the survivors are a handful of tourists and Ecuadorian Indians on Santa Rosalia, an island in the Galapagos. It was there, in 1835, that Charles Darwin observed the variety of species that inspired his theories of natural selection. But according to Vonnegut, nature goofed: Homo sapiens' highly developed cerebral lobes were responsible for the world's troubles. Thinking generated opinions, rationalizations and a peculiar sense of pleasure from cruelty. Says Leon the friendly ghost: "This was a very innocent planet, except for those great big brains...
...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...
...they belonged to the same individual. The only missing pieces of the skeletal puzzle are the hominid's left arm and hand, the right arm from the elbow down, and most of both feet. Leakey hopes to unearth those fragments next summer. The only other known near complete Homo erectus was discovered in 1975 by Leakey across Lake Turkana from the present dig. But that hominid had suffered from a degenerative bone disease, and therefore the find was useless as an archetype of the species...
...youth, about age twelve. But the length of his thigh bones and the size of his vertebrae indicate that he stood about 5 ft. 4 in. tall and may have weighed as much as 150 lbs. This was the size hitherto postulated by scientists for a full-grown Homo erectus...