Word: ancestors
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...Just consider for a moment the cosmic significance of propelling a disembodied mouth through a maze in search of sustenance, the primal terror of being pursued by monsters through empty, winding tunnels. Consider the psychological implications of the game like its innumerable lesser relatives, like its venerable ancestor, pinball, Pac-Man providers the clearest example you'll ever see of the theory of positive reinforcement, negative feedback Do something smart and you keep playing Do something dumb and wham' you have to stop. Buy this shiny little booklet-which looks like the manual they give you with...
...years' examination of the fossil have confirmed that ramapithecus--traditionally thought to be the ancestor of human beings--is really the evolutionary father of the orangutan. The discovery leaves a 14-million-year gap in knowledge about man's lineage...
...Jennings Randolph of West Virginia, who was first elected as a Congressman in 1932; and F.D.R. himself, heard in recordings. Pepper drew guffaws by recounting how he went to the White House to pitch a program and was filibustered throughout the interview with F.D.R.'s reminiscences of his ancestor Robert Livingston, negotiator in 1803 of the Louisiana Purchase. Said Pepper: "I didn't make much progress on my project. But I was the world's best-informed man on Robert Livingston...
...more like 4.5 billion years, said Dalrymple, who scorned the creation contingent as flat-earthers. Francisco Ayala of the University of California at Davis, an ex-priest turned geneticist, ran a brief seminar on amino acids to show that man and monkeys evolved from a common ancestor, but conceded that God could be behind the whole process...
Davis' spiritual ancestor in the cat cartoon game is Bernard Kliban, 46. He started all the madness. Back in 1975, Kliban, a very private Marin County, Calif., comic artist who once owned four felines and lost three of them in a divorce settlement, published Cat, an album of tiger-striped, round-eyed feline meatloaves. Originally a portfolio of cat drawings done to amuse himself, the resulting volume has gone through 26 printings and sold almost 1 million copies in the U.S. alone. From Canada to Japan, Kliban products are now a multimillion-dollar business. Says Kliban...