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| without ridges
It is easily distinguished from the skull
| of the orang-outang, which is brachyce
/ phalic or broad-headed. In its smooth
| upper surface and general form it SHOVE
| a resemblance to the skull of the chin.
/ panzee, and still more so to that Of the
| gibbon. These are the varieties of apes
| whose skulls are most human in appear.
ance. iPthecanthropus lacks the enor-
| nous bony crests which mark the skull
| of the gorilla
| One of the teeth found is the last right
| upper molar 1t is very human in ap-
| pearance. 1t has triangular surface
| and three roots. The grinding surface
| is concave and less rogh than in exist
| ing apes. The diverging roots are an ape
| like feature.
The thigh bone, which is from the left
side, belonged to a full adult animal. In
form and size it resembles a human fe-
muir so strongly that only a very scien-
/ tif1c examination would distinguish one
from the other. The bone is very long
its greatest length being over eighteen
| inches. The shaft is slender and, nearly
straight The outgrowth near the upper
end is accidental
The formation Of the skull and thigh
bone both indicate clearly an animal con-
structed to stand more upright than any
existing ape.
In view of all the facts. DR.. Dubois
gave to his discovery the name of ''Pithe-
canthropus Erectus," meaning "erect ape
man."
In 1895, DR.. Dubois brought his speci-
10 h. =
at Leyden Among those who saw them
and heard his statements were Professor
Virchow, of Germany: Sir William
Flower, of England, and Professor o. c.
Marsh, Of the United States.
These and other scientists now declare
themselves convinced that the remains
are those Of the missing link Professor
Marsh asserts that they belong to the
Pilocene age, the last division of the ter
tiary period, which preceded the present
geological period. 1t has hitherto been
believed that man did not exist as early
as the Piiocene age
Hither to the normal human skulls
nearest the ape have been those dis
covered by the naturalist Spy and in the
Neanderthal. in Germany. They are
known as the Spy No. 1, Spy No. q and
the Neanderthal skulls.
The lowest existing human being Is the
Papun, who is allied to the natives of
Java, which is in the same part of the
world.
Spy No. is universally recognized as
human, but 1t is far below the Papun
skull in development. Starting at the
bottom with the chimpanzee and rising
to the Pithecanthropus, to Spy No 1. to
the Neanderthal man, to Spy No 2, and
to the Papuan, you have the evolution
of ape into man without missing link,
The naturalists have long recognized
that anatomically there were no impor-
tant differences between man and the
ape. The great divergence in brain ca
racity is now disposed Of by the dis
covery of the missing link.
Mans physical resemblance to the ape
may be traced in evry feature of 5he
body down to the smallest details The
hair OF man and the ape grows in the
same direction Man once had long, point
Cd. erectile ears, like a donkey, and their
former existence is indicated by a knot
in the top of his ear. His cousin, the
ane, shows the same trace of former
pointed ears. Darwin pointed out these
facts long ago.
Professor Haecktl traces the evolution
ary descent of man much further back
than the ape According to him man.
the arcs and all mammals are descended
frtIr common ancestral form, which
lived In the Triassic or Permian period.
This form was derived from some PEI
mian or carboniferous reptile allied to
the prognosauria, which was in turn de-
rived from carboniferous amphibian Of
the group called stegocephala. These am
phibians in turn descended from the De-
vonian fishes, and these again from low
or vertehrates