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...press conferences in Washington and Nairobi, Leakey and Walker last week announced that they had unearthed the remains of a male specimen of Homo erectus. The hominid, given a catalog number of WT 15000, was one of a group that was directly ancestral to man and is known to have used fire and lived in caves as well as on the plains of Africa. Members of the species migrated as far as Asia, where the cranium of the so-called Java Man was discovered in 1891 and the Peking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Treasure on the Nariokotome | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

Thus far, more than 70 bones and fragments have been attributed to WT 15000. No two are duplicates and all are of the same stage of maturity, indicating that they belonged to the same individual. The only missing pieces of the skeletal puzzle are the hominid's left arm and hand, the right arm from the elbow down, and most of both feet. Leakey hopes to unearth those fragments next summer. The only other known near complete Homo erectus was discovered in 1975 by Leakey across Lake Turkana from the present dig. But that hominid had suffered from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Treasure on the Nariokotome | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

...While WT 15000 has the beetled brow, small cranium (700 to 800 cubic centimeters, about half that of modern man) and short forehead associated with virtually all human precursors, his size surprised the scientists. From the development of his teeth, they knew that the hominid died in his youth, about age twelve. But the length of his thigh bones and the size of his vertebrae indicate that he stood about 5 ft. 4 in. tall and may have weighed as much as 150 lbs. This was the size hitherto postulated by scientists for a full-grown Homo erectus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Treasure on the Nariokotome | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

First Team Defense Pos.Name College Pts. (1) Ct, Ht. Wt. Hometown DE Mark Mead Harvard 14 (7) Sr. 6'3" 215 New York, N.Y. DE David Smith Pann 11 (4) Sr. 6'3" 230 Newton Center, Mees. DT Gary Cloutier Brown 14 (7) Sr. 6'2" 245 Westerly, A.I. DT +Tom Giella Yale 9 (3) Sr. 6'2" 240 East Masdow. N.Y. DT Ralph Schotz Cornell 9 (3) Sr. 6'5" 238 Niagara Falls, Ont. MG %"John Danlel Brown 13 (6) Sr. 6'11" 210 Conoord, Mass. LB %"Joe Azelby Harvard 14 (7) Sr. 6'2" 225 Dumont...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The 1983 Ivy Football Year in Review | 9/22/1984 | See Source »

Radcliffe lt. wt. def. MIT by 19 secs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCOREBOARD | 4/18/1978 | See Source »

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