Word: homunculus
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...current American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Anthropologist Raymond Arthur Dart, of Johannesburg, gives the Transvaal pygmies their biggest boost up the evolutionary ladder. At one time, Dart had called them Australopithecus (southern ape). Now he wishes that he had named them Homunculus (little man). They appear to have been brainy beyond their size and times. Their brainpans (650 cc) were almost as big as those of their bigger (5 ft. 8 in.) contemporaries, the Men of Java...
When the man in the street, that much maligned but elusive homunculus, thinks of modern painting--if he thinks of it at all the chances are that one of two names will be uppermost in his mind. Modern art to him is either Dali or Picasso...
...Springfield, Mo. Exquisitely beautiful daughter of an Irish ne'er-do-well who later retired to a Missouri chasm, the onetime Omaha convent girl became a newspaper cartoonist at 13, in later years attempted serious painting and sculpture, never really learned linear perspective. She copyrighted her epicene homunculus in 1909, after first seeing its teardrop-headed form in a dream. Pirated the world over, the "Kewpie Doll" sold more than 5,000,000 copies, brought its twice-married parent more than...