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...black America, and to unbiased whites, Joe Louis symbolized the victory of poverty over circumstance. The prejudiced regarded him as an anthropoid in trunks. Before his first match with German Boxer Max Schmeling in 1936, a Nazi journalist wrote, "It is hoped that the representative of the white race will succeed in halting the unusual rise of the Negro." His hopes were not disappointed; Louis lost to Schmeling in the twelfth round. When the American won the rematch with a one-round knockout, his countrymen exulted, but by then the jungle-killer image of Louis had become endemic...
...million years Age of an ankle bone belonging to a tree-climbing anthropoid discovered in Burma. French scientists announced last week that this suggests man's earliest ancestors could be from Asia rather than Africa...
...critical juncture in the history of life. According to their report in Nature, it was the species that directly followed a significant branching of the evolutionary tree. One limb led to the prosimians, or lower primates, such as lemurs and bush babies, and the other to the anthropoids, or higher primates, such as monkeys, apes and humans. Eosimias may be the first species on the anthropoid branch of the tree...
...evidence consists of tiny fossilized ankle and foot bones uncovered in central China beginning in 1995. Painstakingly analyzing their find under a microscope, Daniel Gebo of Northern Illinois University and his colleagues identified features common to both anthropoids and their more primitive forebears. "There's always been a big hole between the earliest fossil anthropoids and prosimians," says Gebo. "The fossils were either true anthropoid or true prosimian; we've never found anything in between until...
Gebo and his colleagues speculate that the anthropoid-like structures of the foot bones helped Eosimians shift from the leaping and clinging typical of tree-dwelling lower primates to walking on all fours, a characteristic that evolved later...