13 Sep 2022 10:41 pm
GHETTOBLASTER » 13 Sep 2022, 8:27 pm » wrote: ↑ In the 1960s my Dads' sister did volunteer work at the SF ZOO.
This is how I first got introduced to anthropologist Dr Louis Leakey as a young boy.
When he brought up the subject of THE MISSING LINK during a talk that he gave to ZOO MEMBERS AT THE PRIMATE EXHIBIT...he stressed that this was THE GREATEST MYSTERY TO THE RESEARCHERS IN HIS FIELD.
IDK HOW OLD I WAS AT THE TIME ...MAYBE 9 or 10 BUT I REMEMBER EXCITEDLY RAISING MY ARM, WAITING FOR HIM TO RECOGNIZE ME..THEN ASKING HIM..."AREN'T ****** "THE MISSING LINKS"...?"
I remember him smiling.... some soft "mumuring" among the small audience and then he changed the subject....
Seriously...I thought I had solved the puzzle....
“The ******,” – he wrote – “treat the apes and, in
particular the chimpanzees, as an inferior human race.” Similar considerations
influenced his explanation of why nobody had heard about offspring from the ape
males and native women. “The women, raped by ape males,” he wrote in his report,
“are regarded as defiled. Such women are treated as pariahs, as socially dead, and, as
I was told, they usually disappear without any trace later” (Ivanov, “African Notes,”
IP 990, p. 44; “ Report about the mission,” GARF 3316-45-18, p. 107).