By JOSEPH LELYVELD. Author of 'On the Road' was Hero to Youth--Rejected Middle-Class Values ack Kerouac, the novelist who named the Beat Generation and exuberantly celebrated its rejection of middle-class American conventions, died early yesterday of massive abdominal hemorrhaging in a St. Petersburg, Fla., hospital. He was 47 years old.
Primates are relative newcomers on our planet. The earliest ones are found in the fossil record dating to 50-55 million years ago. These first prosimians thrived during the Eocene Epoch. There were no monkeys or apes for them to compete with yet.he first true primates evolved by 55 million years ago or a bit earlier, near the beginning of the Eocene Epoch. Their fossils have been found in North America, Europe, and Asia. They looked different from the primates today.
Others disagreed, arguing that Asian apes were closer to modern humans. As it happened, the first truly ancient remains of a hominidâa fossilized skullcap and teeth more than half a million years oldâwere found in Asia, on the island of Java, in 1891. sickle, from Egypt, and blades, found in Iran, were one of the earliest tools humans used for farming and harvesting plants. (Chip Clark, Smithsonian Institution). Fossils of human skulls, which span 2.5 million years, show how the shape of the human brain and face have evolved.