Word: humanoids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Contrary to current newspaper reports, a new identification of a 10,000,000-year-old fossil as "humanoid" does not refute Darwin's theory of evolution, two University faculty members claimed yesterday...
Because the "humanoid" Oreopithecus was a contemporary 10,000,000 years ago of proconsul and dryopithecus, these two apes could not have been ancestors of man, as they have often been considered. Although Hurzeler's thesis proves that man had a long history separate from the apes, Howells denied that it refutes Darwinian evolution...
Similar stones, probably held in the hand and used as crude axes or hammers, have been found elsewhere in Africa, but they are always accompanied by other kinds of stone implements. Arambourg concluded that the stones he found were made by an extremely primitive "humanoid" whose dim wits had discovered only this one item of stone-working technology...