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...settle in your memory. His brain loses 500 million years of evolution in the process, and in the following minutes in the movie, Arkin acts out all of human evolutionary history--from the very first algae, through the many amphibian and primate stages, with a stop at Ramapithecus along the way, faster and faster until he discovers sexuality, and then language. The narrator to this Biology-book scenario notes a sudden pause in Simon's euphoria--probably about the time of the Original Sin--and concludes that "... there's too much joy. He gets guilt and religion...
...Donald Carl Johanson of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History called a press conference to claim that Lucy* is Australopithecus afarensis, a new species in man's evolutionary lineage. He put her age at 3.5 million years, which makes her younger than man's earliest known ancestor, Ramapithecus, who lived 10 million to 14 million years ago. But Johanson said Lucy came before the hominids split into two branches, one leading eventually to Homo sapiens and another leading to the now extinct ape man Australopithecus. The discovery, said Johanson, is "an exciting and provocative breakthrough...
That timetable is highly controversial. For one thing, it would knock out of the running as the earliest hominid, or manlike creature, a favorite contender of many paleontologists, the small and apelike Ramapithecus (for the Hindu epic hero Rama), whose bones were first found in India and who died out some 10 million years ago. Perhaps more important, so recent a split would seem to allow far too little time for the development of a creature as sophisticated as modern...
...accomplished Fossil Hunter, Richard Leakey wittily probes the remains uncovered near crocodile-infested Lake Turkana. The authors admit that we know little about Ramapithecus, a small apelike fellow who existed some 12 million years ago; all we have are a few teeth and bones. Nor, despite the recently unearthed ribs and vertebrae, is there much more data about Australopithecus, who survived until about a million years ago, then turned down an evolutionary dead-end street and disappeared. But science has learned what happened to habilis. With a brain-half again as big as his neighbors', he not only adapted...
...creature most likely to have resulted from this transition, anthropologists believe, was Ramapithecus. Anthropologists theorize that once out of the forest, Ramapithecus began to evolve rapidly. The process...