Sentences with phrase «bones of living apes»

Not exact matches

Richard Leakey published evidence in 1971 indicating that the Australopithecines were «knucklewalkers» not unlike the living African apes which are long - armed, short - legged knucklewalkers.12 In 1975 a quantitative computerized comparison of the bones of modern apes, Australopithecines and man placed the three kinds of creatures in three separated groups.

The fantastic narrative structure jumps from a pre-historic era, when apes first discovered using bones as tools and as weapons, to a futuristic space - age when man discovers proof of intelligent alien life in the form of a gigantic black monolith on the moon.