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...point I make is that, goddammit, I do not think that you glorify on public TV homosexuality...You know what happened to the Greeks? Homosexuality destroyed them. Sure, Aristotle was a homo, we all know that. So was Socrates...The last six Roman emperors were fags...
...long time, many scientists believed that the human life-span was infinitely extendible. The average life-span early in the evolution of Homo sapiens is thought to have been just 20 years. By the beginning of the 20th century, that figure more than doubled--to a still brief 47. Since then, however, life expectancy has been exploding, with people in the developed world now able to live deep into their 70s and often beyond...
...philosophy. Foes of cloning (and of abortion, further down the line) are often accused of being irrational, of basing their morality on religious dogma rather than hard evidence. But which point of view, one wonders, is more irrational—the view that an individual and unique homo sapiens comes into existence at conception (it does—ask any scientist), or the view that embryos only “become human” when they leave the petri dish and are implanted in the uterus? What exactly is the magic of location, anyway...
...DIED. JIA LANPO, 92, Chinese archaeologist who directed the Peking Man excavation; in Beijing. Over six decades, Jia helped unearth a record 45 Homo erectus fossils from the Zhoukoudian site near Beijing. He discovered the first Chinese hominid fossils dating from the Pleistocene era that began 1.8 million years ago, bolstering the theory that modern Chinese are descended from these early men. DIED. WALLACE REYBURN, 87, war correspondent and author of 25 books, including Rehearsal for Invasion, the first-hand account of the ill-fated Dieppe raid of 1942; in London. A deadpan wit, he raised eyebrows with Flushed with...
...many, the notion that primitive hunters could have killed off more than 100 species of large animals has long seemed preposterous. While Homo sapiens certainly killed and ate the likes of mammoths and mastodons, notes Ross MacPhee, an expert on mammalian extinctions at New York City's American Museum of Natural History, it must have done so with great caution. As he puts it: "If some guy walked up to a mammoth armed only with a pointy stick, chances are he would have been road pizza within minutes...