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...future, you can put one in your past-on the Magic Skyway, a superb bit of showmanship. In a Ford, you will scoot around Disney dinosaurs, watch a two-story Tyrannosaurus rex getting the best of a tough old Stegosaurus, and pop in on a happy household of hairy Homo sapiens...
...fact that human young are born more helpless than those of most animals, and remain dependent longer than any others, is sometimes seen as a disadvantage. Not so, said Dr. Cooke: "The greatest single advantage that the species Homo sapiens possesses is to be born immature and to remain immature for a long time." It is this, he declared, that creates the opportunity for the improvement of man. He suggested that it is not so important to know how much intelligence is determined by inheritance and how much it is affected by environment, as to know how each of these...
...Leakey wants to call this up-and-coming pygmy Homo habilis, or skillful man, and recognize him as a direct ancestor of modern man. He thinks that a prehuman creature called Kenyapithecus lived in East Africa 12 million years ago and evolved into Homo habilis and at least two other different types, notably Australopithecus and erectus, a near man that includes both Java and Peking man. From Homo habilis, Leakey believes, are descended both Neanderthal man (Homo sapiens neanderthalensis) and modern man (Homo sapiens sapiens). His theory, if correct, would trace man's ancestry back to the Pliocene...
...Some of them argue that Dr. Leakey's newfound fossils are examples of prehuman creatures that happen to look fairly manlike. Others agree that they are extremely interesting but maintain that they are too fragmentary to assign a definite place in the primate family tree. Leakey's Homo habilis may well become established as an ancestral man-if he is not first demoted to an apeman, as was Zinjanthropus...
...find proves that the man-apes formerly taken to be ancestors of Homo sapiens were in fact already specialized in the direction of the apes, and although they co-existed with primitive man, occupied a different ecologic nicho and so did not compete with man. The implications of a species of man essentially modern in foot structure and dentition at such an early period are tremendous for students of human evolution...