The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-15

cles of the Jaws likewise became reduc-
ed and the ridges which held them to
the skull became less prominent. As
this superior intelligence developed, the
brain and it's cavity grew larger. AS the
arms grew shorter the legs became more
and more convenient for locomotion, ana
thus was the erect posture developed.
The ape ancestor of course had no tail;
hence that appendage was not part OF
,pithecanthropus in any stage OF his de-
lyelopment."
! THE PROBABLE HOME.
| DO you believe Java to be the proper
place to seek .pithecanthropus? If you
!were to set out to find him, would you
lgo there first?'
| Were 1 to go out and look for pithe-
icanthropus my only guide would be the
knowledge of where probable specimens
had been already found. / would go in
their neighborhood.
This area in which man was evolved
from the ape believe to have been India,
land / include Java under the general
head of India. In the late tertiary OF
India there existed a genus ape to whach
the chimpanzee belonged. 1t Is very
lnossible that man was evolved from his
Istock. Although mans nearest relatives
lnow living are the African chimpanzee
land gorilla, that old ape of India was
probably nearer the line of our ancestry
than any of the African species. The lat
, ter were, in a geologic sense, propapis
late corners into Africa. IL would pe
! useless to seek pithecanthropus In Eu
; trope Moreover, there was never a tribe
, lof such creatures in America. Man hat
perfectively developed before he came {
!. this continent. The first man In Amer
!, ca was not very different from man a
s found here today. In the course of tim
9 everything varies, and man has undouot
f eddy varied in color ana physique iron
9 his ancestral parents who came to Amer
= ica The first man TO reach our shore
. from Asia arrived ten or twenty thou
NJ sand years ago, roughly guessing"
NO LIVE ONES IN EXISTENCE.
# rs it not barely possible that liv
pithecanthropus may some time be 1ouh
d upon earth?'
- mo The evolution from ape TO ma
- is not now in progress, as it used to bt
h The struggle for existence mas cro"oe
, out all intermediate links between ap
q and man. The pithecanthropus Wnlc
> originally occupied the same ground Wit
IL early man did not have the inteiigehC
a. to successfully compete with MIN IN u
% struggle for existence. But the az
w proper continued to live in the region
If hostile to man. Had they occupied tel
w ritory necessary or favorable to ma
a they would have long been out or e4ls
" cree, as they practically now are, exceI
in limited parts of Africa and Borneo.
SO Suppose the Vanderbilt and Hack
Mt expeditions We're TO find I'VE pithecai
n-ithropus: how would he look ?"
e THAT would depend upon the stage
ID his transition. If representing an ear
ID stage he would be bowlegged and Woul
t. have short lower limbs and long upp'
1e limbs If representing the later stas
or his legs would appear straighter and be
adj ter developed; his arms almost as sho
ne as mans. He would have considerao
NJ hair on his body, and between it wou
,aI he seen his black skin. His Uranium
he brain cavity would be lager and teep
al 'ttan that of man. His jaws would
g. more prominent than those OF the mo