The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-08-21
when Man Was n Monkey.

Into discussions based on the remnants
Of prehistoric man the lavman. warned
bv the fate Of ARNER DEAN of Angels
will hardly car" 10 enter. The diver
gem" of opinion between the discovererss
and their colleagues in the science as Ia
IN" nature of the remains and their
meaning and Importance il usually so
strong and 50 piCturesquclv violent that
iho-e who ar" not anthrupologsts prefer
90 h" lnoksrs on. Witness the conflict
over the Calaveras skull Ii il safer TO
merely record the doings of the men 81
Silence and ~ watch tho flight 81 their
imagination through the geologic and
evolutionary past. an instance of which
NAV lee found in the resent con lectures
of Professor BRAUN of Brrslau. which at
any rat" increase tho vocabulary. II
was Brown of Calavcras. by the way
who uncarthcd the fossil bones that
broke up III" society on the StanislaIs.
Professor llRATN'S aim j. To connect
IN" two great stalking horses Of fossil
anthropoloCv. the Ncanderthal man and
HIM II AuriGnac. with the progenitors
~ tho anthrnpoid ape and that inter
citing mystery from Java the pitheCan-
thropns The Ncandertha man was
discovered FIRST he would have been
NOR" satisfactory, even to scientific
mon. II he had left behind more than the |
roof IT his skull. That was very thick. !
AM = the ground for tho scientific gen |
"l primitive man. Near the fragment |
"f the skull were found pieces Of bones
which may have been what Mr.. VENUS
called human various and may have
shown marks ~ gnawing. The Auri-
cna" man had different Cranial forma-
ton, though both races were "a low
Nrnw"i as apes or more. II is easy 10
'n'cr that IN" two species otman shared
~" late glacial world among them that
'h'v fought each other. and IA Profess
spr BRArN imagin"s from the hone
fragments. that they ate each other.
Other prehistoric remains show Char-
n "'"ri~tics Of both races so that IL is
clear that they intermarried also.
From this pleasant picture Of human
i'v IN the glacial period Professor
BR'rNS fancy turns 10 earlier times.
- m" prlmates who were forebears Of !
tnr apes and men alike. for whom he :
thinks the name propithecanthropoi J
wuuld be best suited. and CheerfiIlly q
: onsId"rs Nh" mixture Of primitive man .
and aboriginal ape There are four q
well defined speries Of anthropoid apes }
z gibbons. gorlllas. Chimpanzees and a
and fossil remains of n
p.tr ap..st,ra ba,.a ba,,, F,rnl - - Il
tertiary rocks Professor BRAIN finds q
hat the Neandcrthal man, the man of A
IN" West. ~ closer 10 the gorilla and the n
iuTig,nac man Of the East closer 10 the
than the two human races a
are 10 each other. He -ees back Of them h
-cccdIng still further into geologic space. 4
-orillpIds and orangolds a. stems from r.
vhIch they varied. and infcrs naturally !
hat there must have been glbbonoids j.
md "himpanzoids as well. He il con- u
idrnt that fossils will be found 10 con- y
irrn this. and we are also sure that now u
hat IN" theory Is advanced the evil NJ
ienc" will be discovered He does no, u
answer tho question whether the Java ~
! an" or man. but h. holds out the pros- "a
Vet ~ hunting for the prechimnanzoid IN
- IN" common progenltor 81 gorilla IA
nd Neand"rthal man
ThlS bar" outline IL decked out in Pro- hi
es-or BRAUN's article. which - CON ~
cnsed IN M" Norddou,sche Ailo,msin r.
,oiiuHg. with analocics and comparisons: ~
g brings IN the negroid races ~ Africa >,
nd tho Australians among others. He II
cnon-t rates, what mathematicians and 81
thor men Of -"i"ncc are fond Of assert Ia
~. that imagination il "a greater factor IN
scientific imaginat ION than in poe,ryor III
lar. The genesis II the man-monkev -
10 horrors "f a canniballstic glacial IN
orld. built up from the top 81 n thick aV
r~sil skull. which VrRCHow thought Ia
a. hc product Of disease. of
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