The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-07-07
MEN AND MONKEYS.
According to New Theory the Fu
Existed First.
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According to New Theory the Fu1
Existed First.
London Standard.
Sensitive persons who object to "
confronted with their poor relations :
lind comfort in the theory advance 4
Prof. Klaatsch of Heidelberg unksN
and summarized today by orr Berll K
rt dependent. We are no longer bound "a
lieNe that man Is descended from +,
The mystery of evolution mas been I'll \
up, the search for the missing link Is K
uprCd futile by the learned doctors X
coyery of the proper signihcanV &
luuscle in the upper part OF the thiH
short stand, as one part of this Is I'll
IS attached TO the hbula. and Is lifted 4
special nerve. After years Of inre.
tion, Herr klaatsch has convinced lizt
that this short strfLd'' is a rudiilea
form of a muscle common to a cons
bic number of mammals, such a. !.
supials. CarniYores and many rodents
fact, it Is very frequently present. but (
anthrOpOid apes and preno4Sle.tl1
American monkeys possess it ln'tas I
modified condition as man. Some ctnt
creatures indeed have entirely lost IL 1!
as me lemurs of the old world. Thai 4
Gates that the muscle can not be sar'
able for life on trees, Its modification "A
the result of dlsuse when the prosts'
creature began to walk upright. II 4
is an Inheritance, common indeed q
and apes, but derived FROM some nj
mamm1llan ancestor. SO far from psa
the ape to be father of the man, i 1
gestS the contrary view. Both can e
a common ancestry In some long eiS
mammalian form, but that is all. Ia4
the sayants may he right In lnfer'
from the fragmental remains Of me u
PlthccAnthrOpuS, that ii was eltha
most manlike of apes or the most ap.
of men, the creature does not supply
missing link In a pedigree beginning /
simian and ending In homo sapIens
The professor also tells us that q,
listing apes are for the most part al
crate forms. Are we, then, to reyers
time selt-indulgent race of men have
generated into apes, as little Ton
Taught, according to the Water Bsee
But TO check any human concelt who|
may seem to have encouraged,
hlaatsch Informs us that 1t Is quite v
10 consider man, as mammal, the
perfectly developed liz every way. Dt
the matter of brain Is he faclle pEl1
Wen, 1t is a relief to get this admli
and as for the other organs, we coz
much to animals which have to get Z
living by cracking nuts or gnawlng "a
we do not profess to leap like tigeis
lIhe ueer or climb Ike gibbons. IN allN
we grant tAe advantage to the saYase
are aware that an edentalous or %
toothless being Is to be the ultimate z
oil civilization. But, we suggest, ls Co.,
professor building up very large "
structure on a rather small basei ~
glhent, though 1t comes to differed
cluslon reminds MS of the famous rl
VerSy In which Huxley and owen ons
uted, ms TO whether the ape did or az
possess a small structure called 4 q
campus In Its brain, for ON that de9e'
whether on no the ape was the "Vas
brother of man. II is doubtful. lHs
whether the professor has proved 2
than the most thorough going er0alg
is ready TO grant. The latter does D..
sert, so far as we know that man =
scended from a gorilla, or chlmpanls
an orang-outang. He holds. rather
as sometimes happens In the social =
one branch of n family has greitN I,
VINE all the Others have remained ca9
oil Gideon. Charles Darwin stated this
clearly in The Descent OF Man arg
sun generally accepted As an efdF
Isl, he admitted a kinship hetWp
mammals. since their pedigrees had q
mon origin. Sometimes the parting
Deen very remote. sometimes more n
The .platyrhine aud catarhine monkee
cousln-germalr In fact, to an evelute
j would seem strange for ancestors \
nouflshing side by side with mel
spring, FOR nature works very sloNll'
VIII not be hurried over the ofigis