MAN AND THE ANTHROPOID

Anthropoid Agents

The anthropoid-like face of Siamopithecus: cherry picking trees, phylogenetic corroboration, and the adapiform-anthropoid hypothesis.

ALFRED L. ROSENBERGER,* GREGG F. GUNNELL, AND RUSSELL L. CIOCHON Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, Brooklyn, New York Department of Anthropology, City University of New York Graduate Center, New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology (NYCEP), New York, New York Department of Mammalogy, American Museum of Natural History, New York, Ne...

john steinbeck: friend of the american common man

in his last years of life americans had almost forgotton steinbeck, and those who had not, occasionally criticized him for supporting and praising the u. s. military intervention in the vietnam war. althought ateinbeck incorporates different themes into his works, each one bears many signs of his concern and sympathy for america and the american common people in particular. steinbecks to a god ...

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...

New perspectives on anthropoid origins.

Adaptive shifts associated with human origins are brought to light as we examine the human fossil record and study our own genome and that of our closest ape relatives. However, the more ancient roots of many human characteristics are revealed through the study of a broader array of living anthropoids and the increasingly dense fossil record of the earliest anthropoid radiations. Genomic data a...