Word: insectivora
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bats are descended from an extinct species of Insectivora. But because of their dexterous hands and feet they were grouped with the Primates by early taxonomists. The unsettling resemblance of bats to humans is readily apparent in many of the book's pictures. Such resemblances have overheated imaginations for centuries. Gargoyles, those batlike grotesqueries designed to draw off water and scare the devil from cathedrals in the Middle Ages, were undoubtedly inspired by ths real things that hung timidly in medieval spires...
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