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  2. March of Progress - Wikipedia

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    The caption below the image reads "We will not allow ourselves to be made into monkeys!" Riley Black, writing for Scientific American , argues that the idea of a "march of progress", as depicted in the 1965 Time-Life illustration, dates back to the medieval great chain of being and the 19th century idea of the " missing link " in the fossil ...

  3. Evolution of primates - Wikipedia

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    The surviving tropical population of primates, which is seen most completely in the upper Eocene and lowermost Oligocene fossil beds of the Faiyum depression southwest of Cairo, gave rise to all living species—lemurs of Madagascar, lorises of Southeast Asia, galagos or "bush babies" of Africa, and the anthropoids: platyrrhine or New World ...

  4. Portal:Evolutionary biology/Selected pictures - Wikipedia

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    The last known Thylacine photographed at Hobart (formerly Beaumaris) Zoo in 1933. A scrotal sac is not visible in this or any other of the photos or film taken, leading to the supposition that "Benjamin" was a female, but the existence of a scrotal pouch in the Thylacine makes it impossible to be certain

  5. Kanzi - Wikipedia

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    Kanzi has learned hundreds of arbitrary symbols representing words, objects, and familiar people (including the generic "Visitor"). Sue Savage-Rumbaugh (L), Kanzi (R), and his sister Panbanisha (C) working at the portable "keyboard" Although Kanzi can sometimes mimic human speech, this shows him during a species-standard vocalization.

  6. Gibbon - Wikipedia

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    With a genome that has a 96% similarity to humans, the gibbon has a role as a bridge between Old World monkeys, such as macaques, and the great apes. According to a study that mapped synteny (genes occurring on the same chromosome) disruptions in the gibbon and human genome, humans and other great apes are part of the same superfamily ...

  7. Sackbut - Wikipedia

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    Before the early 19th century, most trombone players adjusted their tuning using a crook placed at the joint between the bell and the slide or seldom between the mouthpiece and the slide.", [4] rather than the modern tuning slide on the bell curve, [5] whose cylindrical sections prevent the instrument from flaring smoothly through this section.

  8. These are the pedophile symbols you need to know to protect ...

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    Click through the see images of the symbols: Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement. In Other News. Entertainment. Entertainment. Variety. NBC, Macy’s srike 10-year deal to keep ...

  9. Caricatures of Charles Darwin and his evolutionary theory in ...

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    Among the stages in the process are the earthworm, the monkey and the cave man. Clocks are displayed in the background; the path on which the evolution proceeds is labelled as "times meter" both indicating that the evolution is depicted in time lapse. Darwin resembles one of the figures of Michelangelo's ceiling fresco in the Sistine Chapel. [6]