Word: ancestor
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...when, between novels, Naipaul visited Trinidad, Zaire, Argentina and Uruguay. The resulting essays are partly coroner's reports on would-be redeemers, partly sources for settings and personality traits that Naipaul later used in his novels. Zaire's Mobutu, with his brew of futurism and ancestor worship, is clearly the model for the remote leader of the Central African nation described in A Bend in the River (1979). The confused longings and demagogy of Michael de Freitas, a Trinidadian cult leader who was hanged for murder in 1975, are reflected in Guerrillas (1975). There are touches of pathos...
...Whose Ancestor...
Your Science subheading, "Still, the monkey-like creature was our ancestor" [Feb. 18], implies fact. The theory of evolution is just a theory. If you want to claim this beast as your ancestor, be my guest. My relatives were much better looking...
...uncle's store, Felix's, ancestor of the current Linden St. shoe repair store, once stood where Gnomon Copy now stands on Mass...
...higher primates, including man. Three years ago, Simons and his colleagues resumed their digging about 60 km (40 miles) southwest of Cairo, where he had found a single fossilized Aegyptopithecus skull in 1966. Last week they reported striking new evidence that the scrawny creature is the oldest common ancestor of apes...