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...with his high mental development, may well be an early stage in the start of a new class of vertebrates. . . . Taking the available evidence into consideration, it seems safe to predict that homo sapiens will survive this depression and many others...
...that so many of us find ourselves in prison, but that any of us have learned to keep out. "As soon as apes began to go in families and hordes . . . unselfishness of mothers, devotion of fathers and disinterestedness of friends began to operate. Such a patchwork is homo sapiens. It is hard to imagine any purely terrestrial epidemic or insect scourge that would wipe...
...avian family. It goes about its business in a grave manner, its coloring is reminiscent of formal evening attire, and you may take it upon the authority of M. Anatole France that its social habits are in many instances superior to those of its well known relative, homo sapiens...
...last week interested the meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Manhattan. Wrote Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey, digger in East Africa: "It is almost beyond question that the skeleton of a human being found by Professor Hans Reck in 1913 is the oldest known authentic skeleton of Homo sapiens...
...typical of the U. S. scientist, prelate and minor tycoon, respectively. But Babbitt remained foremost among them as a representative of U. S. citizenry and U. S. literature, having been more translated* and being more lipworthy in name. George Follansbee Babbitt was recognized as a world synonym for Homo Americanus when, last week, Author Lewis was awarded the Nobel prize for literature, biggest & best literary honor on earth. Tall, spindly, brass-haired, pock-marked Sinclair Lewis was born Feb. 7, 1885, in Sauk Center, Minn. His father, a country physician, had migrated from Connecticut, so at the proper age young...