St Andrews
St Andrews Royal burgh and university town in Fife, on the
ne coast of Scotland. It was the ecclesiastical capital of Scotland until the Reformation. The rules of golf were devised at the Royal and Ancient Golf Club. Pop. (2000 est.) 14,500.
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Catching up with China's past. (paleontology in China)
Magazine article from: Science News; 5/18/1985; ; 700+ words
; ...yielded the largest known collection of Ramapithecus and Sivapithecus bones, including...jaws and more than 1,000 teeth. Ramapithecus, which lived from about 8 million...Etler, Wu and colleagues contend that Ramapithecus and Sivapithecus are the female and...
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Letters to the editor
Newspaper article from: Yakima Herald-Republic; 12/5/1999; 700+ words
; ...is the knee joint. The problem is that Lucy's knee bone was found in a strata 200 feet lower and over a mile and a half away from the other bones. Orce Man turned out to be a donkey, and Ramapithecus was an orangutan. Java Man wa
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The uninvited skeleton at the archaeological table: the crisis of paleoanthropology in South Asia in the twenty-first century.
Magazine article from: Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific; 9/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...archaeological records. One significant change in the interpretation of hominid origins and antiquity relates to the dethronement of Ramapithecus as the Siwalik Miocene ape formerly accorded the status of a protohominid. Fossilized gnathic and dental remains of various...
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16 million-yr.-old ape fossils may be link to man
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 11/13/1986; 528 words
; ...If those ages are confirmed, the apes would be placed 4 million to 6 million years earlier in the evolutionary line than Ramapithecus, the ape-man considered by Leakey to be the first true representative of the human species. Leakey, a researcher on...
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Her words. (poem)(Special Section: Twenty American Poets)
Magazine article from: TriQuarterly; 3/22/1996; ; 369 words
; ...away ancient crust and sediment finding language, alive and agitated, instead of the fossilized femur of a long-dead Ramapithecus. Words wrapped in rhythm, pleasure, knowledge and pain. Words as sharply defined as an Ashanti sculpture. Words of an...
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Altar to be built for worshipping earliest humans found in China
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 6/15/2006; 483 words
; ...difference between human beings and animals. Chinese scientists also discovered "orientals" dating back 2.1 million years and Ramapithecus hudienensis, a kind of ancient ape which is nearer to mankind than other palaeopithecuses, living 2.7 million years ago...
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Pre-historic axe discovered in Indian state MP.
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.; 6/25/2009; 490 words
; ...weighed 650 gms. Homo erectus is believed to be the third ancestor in the line of human evolution while their predecessor was Ramapithecus, the first ancestor (10-14 million years ago), he said. Homo erectus colonised much of Africa and parts of South East...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Newspaper article from: Wyoming Tribune-Eagle; 11/22/2005; 644 words
; ...summarized by Zoologist Frank Sherwin, writing in "Back to Genesis." He gives us the current status of human evolution: Ramapithecus-a pongid or great ape, not a hominid; Piltdown Man-greatest paleontological hoax; Nebraska Man-extinct pig; Cro...
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Ramapithecus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Ramapithecus , an extinct group of primates that...therefore, of modern humans. Fossils of Ramapithecus were discovered in N India and in E...was generally an apelike creature, Ramapithecus was considered a possible human ancestor...
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Hominidae
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology
...cultures. The family included the genera Paranthropus , Australopithecus (but See AUSTRALOPITHECINES ), and Homo ; formerly Ramapithecus was also included in this family, but this is now rejected. There was said to be one surviving species, Homo sapiens sapiens...
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Sivapithecus
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences
Sivapithecus Genus of early hominoid Primates, which probably includes the socalled Ramapithecus . They are known from E. Africa, south-eastern Europe, Turkey, Arabia, Pakistan, northern India, and southern China...
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Miocene
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
...mammals the Miocene is important for the diversification of the primates around 21 Ma and the emergence of the early hominid Ramapithecus some 7 Ma later. It was around 14 Ma that many land mammals of their kind that had been common in the earlier Cenozoic were...
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Leakey, L. S. B.
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
...occupation sites. Leakey, already well versed in human and hominid palaeontology, had established the presence of forms of Ramapithecus and of Dryapithecus in the Kenyan Miocene. Now he became much sought after to advise on the study of sites elsewhere in...
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