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While these ancient footprints shed fresh light on our nearer ancestors, Anthropologist Elwyn Simons, director of Duke University's primate center, revealed new findings on more distant kin. Most scientists agree that both man and ape descended from a common ancestor, a beast called Dryopithecus (meaning tree ape), which appeared in Africa some 20 million years ago. But who, or what, preceded it? As far back as 1963, Simons, then at Yale, began uncovering in the wind-scoured Fayum desert region, southwest of Cairo, bones of a likely candidate: a small, fox-sized, tree-inhabiting primate, which he dubbed Aegyptopithecus...
Estey is now living at his home in Lexington because it is nearer to the rink where he practices and he says he can get more rest there. However, he said that after the Nationals he will return to his campus quarters, Thayer Hall...
...process of cataloguing and microfilming. It is hoped that this process can be carried out as quickly as possible, and that all the information contained in the files eventually sees the light of day; perhaps then, one of the most controversial cases in American jurisprudential history will finally be nearer to resolution...
...Year of the Rookie Goaltender in the ECAC, Vermont is no exception. Freshman Tony Frost from nearby Belmont and even-nearer-by Browne and Nichols should get the call in nets tonight for UVM. Harvard's John Hynes, with all of one game under his belt, will oppose Frost...
...setting was a conference on constitutional reform, and Gorton, 66, kicked off the proceedings by quoting Omar Khayyam: "Would we not shatter it to bits-and then remold it nearer to the Heart's desire...