Word: footedly
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...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...
...acknowledges, however, that it will take more than a few foot bones to establish Eosimias as the common ancestor of monkeys, apes and man. Some experts, in fact, say that Eosimias is probably closer to the tarsiers, which split off earlier from the monkey-to-human branch. "So far, we don't have the smoking gun," argues anthropologist Eric Delson of the City University of New York's Lehman College. He would be convinced, he says, by a full skull showing fused eye sockets and forehead. (By contrast, lemurs have gaps in both places...
...head of the Roman Catholic Church, John Paul has one foot in the dimension of history (where mess, error, violence, fanaticism and stupidity flourish merrily) and the other in the dimension of eternity (where, he must insist, the holiness and infallibility of the church as the mystical body of Christ remain intact). It is awkward: How does infallibility own up to its fallibilities and yet remain infallible? The Pope's solution: by being vague about the actual sins and by attributing them, in any case, to men and women who are Catholics and not to the Catholic Church itself...
...Part of the infighting is due to conflicting egos, but most of it is just because we are all so passionate about political reform," he writes. "It's healthy in some way, but I think it has to stop. We are shooting ourselves in the foot, really, whenever we come across as disorganized or a circus...