Word: prehominid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...healthy supply of female chauvinism, she has developed a theory that is even more speculative and sexist than those she decries. In The Descent of Woman (Stein & Day; $7.95), Author Morgan proposes that many of mankind's current physical and behavioral characteristics developed during a period when prehominid apes spent much of their time on sandy shores and in neck-high waters. Led by females, she says, the apes abandoned the dying forests, found life on the open plains too threatening and took to the ocean, where they lived for ten million years before resuming a land-based...
...Morgan states, that the prehominid female began to walk on two feet instead of four to keep her head above water. It was also there that she-and not, as some theorists would have it, the male-became the first to use implements purposefully. Envying the male's dagger-like fangs that he could use to crunch through shells, she picked up a pebble and managed to crack a shell with it. "She tried it again, and it worked every time. So she became a tool user, and the male watched her and imitated...
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