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...Arthur confined himself to nothing more than a bare outline of Darwin's achievement, contenting himself with the assertion that the human species has been evolved from a "humble primate animal" and that man and ape have a common ancestor. The theory itself was not otherwise touched upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Leeds | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

...once went so far as to say editorially: "The cult of hatless men, which had few devotees . . . has many now. . . ." Further than this U. S. journalism has preferred not to go in raising an issue, perhaps some day to take its place beside such questions as: "Was Adam an ape-man?"; or "What per cent of alcohol makes a beverage 'intoxicating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imitation | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

...replaced the ovaries of Nora, mature chimpanzee, with a woman's ovaries, and then succeeded in; impregnating her with human sperms by artificial means, Dr. Serge Voronoff of Paris has been the subject of much lay and scientific speculation. Nora's baby, biologically human, but prenatally an ape, was to be born in January. In August she was reported "progressing normally." Then no more bulletins . . . until last week. Pressed for information, Dr. Voronoff made answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: No Ape-Child | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

...consternation yesterday of the paper patriots as reported in the metropolitan press was highly amusing. The manner in which they rushed to the support of the proposal and at the same time tried with much twisting and turning to have the cruisers augurs ill for this little attempt to ape the "Deutschland uber Alles" methods when it comes before the House again in the near future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HIGH POLITICS | 2/12/1927 | See Source »

Serving the Emergency Fleet Corp. as consulting engineer, he invented the cement gun. For his African field work he invented a cinema camera. In 1924 he caused a ripple in sculpture and religious circles with his bronze, The Chrysalis, allegorizing mankind's evolution, from the ape. He married twice: Delia T. Donning of Beaver Dam, Wis., who divorced him in 1923; Mary Lee Jobe, mountaineer, of Manhattan, who was with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Akeley | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

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