The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1913-07-09
VERY EARLIEST
OF ALL HUMANS
Whose Remains Are Now
On Exhibition,
WAS CERTAINLY RIGHTHANOE0
Brain Developed First and
Made Monkey Assume
Upright Position.
A LITTLE COILED-UP SKELETON

The very earliest human being
whose remains have been discover
ed was righthanded. Possibly a
certain percentage of his fellows
may have been left-handed, but
whichever way ii worked. there is
no doubt about it that one of the
points of separation between the
nobler apes and the lowest men is
the fact that the quick, insistent
use of the right hand was utterly
unknown to the apes.
DR.. Smith Woodward, lecturing
recently on Recent Discoveries of
Early Man" at the Royal Institu-
ton, told how in the evolution of
.Vertebrates there came time when
the tree dwellers began to develop
brain.
Brain was the only part that
advanced" he said, ''and after
brain development followed the up
right position. 1t is strange that a
heavy brain should cause a monkey
to hold its head upright, yet so it
seems to have been"
He showed lantern slides of the
little coiled-up skeleton that has
been found at La Chapelle aux
Saints, in a small cleft in the side
of a valley, by M. Boule. He had
not dreamed of finding human re-
mains, but when he came to a hol-
low on the side of limestone hill
he and his friends found ii lying
over what was probably grave.
The horn of bison was the first
thing discovered. Underneath was
the skeleton. His wrath would
need food, and the bison was evil
IDENTIFY the last offering of his
friends.
Bones or remains of the horse
and the wolf lie not far away from
the burial place, all inside the lit
tie cave. In an odd corner was a
something blackened that looked
like a fireplace. No one knows
what it was used for, but it is sur
rounded by bones neither burned
by fire nor gnawed by beasts.
1t is possible that the La Cha
pelle skeleton ma ybe of enormous
antiquity. A few flint implements
are found in its neighborhood, but
neither reindeer nor bone has been
seen near it. Possibly this may be
a relic of the Middle Pleistocene.
1t has large, square eyesockets, and
il has a big brain pan. II clothed
with flesh il would be quite as
beautiful, according to modern aes-
theticism, as an Australian bush
man.
All the earlier skulls, according
to DR.. Woodward, are large. AS
rule they have a much larger brain
capacity than those of the man of
to-day. Quantity in the old days is
possibly made up for by the quality
of to-day. Monkeys never have a
development like this.
Moreover, man, even the La
Chapelle man, always has parietal
bones. which proves that the left
hemisphere of the brain was larger
than the right. In ordinary right
banded men and women of to-day
this is the common arrangement, as
the left limbs are always controlled
by the right part of the brain. and
vice versa.
No monkey brain has ever been
known to show differences in its
sides. Perhaps the huge differ
ences between early man and late
monkey depends on the fact that a
man uses one hand preferably his
right hand) more quickly than the
other. and the monkey has neither
of his upper limbs specialized
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