Word: lemurs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...primate collections include skins, skeletons, and preserved material, particularly of gibbons, langurs, macaques, and lemurs from Siam and British North Borneo. Each ape, monkey, or lemur that was collected has been carefully measured and weighed before being skinned, dissected, or embalmed...
Last week in Princeton Dr. Jepsen pronounced the bones to be those of a leaping primate the size of a rat and structurally akin to the modern lemur, which lived in the Paleocene epoch of 60,000,000 years ago. Only a few toes were missing. So far as the paleontologist knew it was the most complete Paleocene skeleton of any sort ever recovered. Preserved even was a hyoid bone which served to support chin and jaw muscles. This bone was an eighth of an inch long, no thicker than a horsehair. Dr. Jepsen could assign no certain reason...
Because of its resemblance to the lemur, the question arose whether this primitive primate could have been a human ancestor. Dr. Jepsen thought not. Such a possibility would have been more favorably considered years ago when man was believed to have descended from a protolemuroid stock and it was paleontologically fashionable to speak of the "lemuroid phase" in the evolution of Anthropoidea (apes, monkeys, humans). Recent research in comparative anatomy has tended to displace the lemurs, as human ancestors, in favor of a small, tree-living nocturnal animal called Tarsius which has a thumb opposable to its fingers, eats with...
...year ago that withered little lemur of a man, Mahatma Gandhi, was the best beloved person in all India. But during the past twelvemonth St. Gandhi has almost entirely abandoned his popular anti-British civil disobedience campaign for his unpopular campaign to break the caste system and liberate Hindu Untouchables. Driving into Buxar last week, St. Gandhi's automobile was waylaid by an angry, hooting crowd which smashed windshield, windows and hood, hurt everyone in the car but St. Gandhi. Deeply depressed, the Mahatma planned a three-week fast as penance. It was the first recorded attack on India...
...squatted more than 100 persons last week-Hindus, Moslems, Sikhs, Christians-all gazing out on the terrace where on a cot lay what looked like a week's wash, a great bundle of white linen shrouding the living skeleton of Mahatma Gandhi. Month ago, already an owl-eyed lemur of a man. St. Gandhi began a fast in behalf of the Hindu Untouchables, without whose liberation he believes real self-government in India is impossible...