Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-01-03
IS PROVED BY
SCIENTISTS THINK
Find Is Believed Missing
Link In Evolution Of
Mans Existence.

human, the jaw is as emphatically ape
like. Found by itself 1t might and
would be regarded as that Of an ape
eral conformation.
This remarkable fragment agrees
with the celebrated jaw found about
Ave years age on Jauer Heidelberg
known as the Heidelberg Jaw, but II
presents an apelike feature which the
less ancient Heidelberg jaw does not
The most striking point Of both IL the
extraordinarily receding chin, the Jaw
sloping backward sharply from the
base of the teeth, which had a decided
forward thrust.
In the living races OF mankind the
chin Is always more or less ~conspick
| GUS, the lower border of the jaw stand
ing well In advance of the teeth, which
are mounted vertically along its rim.
Other apelike features Of the jaw are
the absence Of the muscular ridge
along its inner surface. known as the
m~ylohyoid ridge, anording attachments
for the muscles OF swallowing and
speech. This ridge Is always resent
In the human jaw.
Finally In apes two branches \ tho
lower jaw, where they meet In front
behind the teeth, form a sort Of plat
form on which the tongue rests. In
man this platform has been suppressed,
thus greatly enlarging the cavity Of
the mouth and rendering speech posi-
| Bile.
Race Lacked Speech.
1t Is therefore generally agreed that
the skull belonged to a race of men
who lacked the power Of speech. &
A prominent ant~hropol0gist who was
interviewed said that the evidence ON
that point was convincing, the speech
centers" in the brain being 80 feebiy
developed that brain power was prac-
tically noneXistent.
1t Is also clear that the front teeth,
which are missing, must have been
very large and p~rotruding, and man
with such teeth could not talk. Yer.
the back teeth must have been human
teeth.
As has already been explained In
dispatches to the New York Times, the
Sussex skull Is not entire, but the frag-
| ments discovered are sufficiently com
! plete to give when fitted together Z
fairly accurate picture OF a greater
portion Of the brain containing part OF
the skull. The face and the greater.
part of the forehead are missing, but
fortunately half Of the lower jaw with
the first and second molar teeth In stu
was recovered. The front part OF the
mandible also is missing, but there-ts
enough to show that the c~hip<nNafor-.
nation was identical with to16t OF th9
anthropoid apes.
Not a single bone Of the limbs or
trunk was found.
! The skull was apparently complete
when unearthed by workmen; but, not
realizing the Importance Of their find,
they broke 1t up Into three fragments.
right away. Charles Dawson, an anna.
teur geologist, heard of the affair by
chance and with the aid Of DR.. Wood
ward recovered as many fragments ~
possible. They also discovered In the
same spot two broken pieces OF tho
molar of the pliocene type Of elephants'
q molar cusp Of a mastOdon, teeth OF
the hippopotamus, castor and equus
and fragments OF an antler Of the GER
vus elaphus.
Mr.. Dawson, in telling of the diseov-
cry, said the fragments Of the skull,
like the fossils found with them, were
deeply stained and i~mpregnatnd with
iron oxide.
The same stratum also contained
samples Of eoliths or the most primt-
tive flint forms ascribed to human
workmanship, which occur SO plenti-
fully on the Kentish plateau. twenty
miles north of the scene of-the present
discovery. These included two highly
worked fints of a type known as cheE
lean, but they are fawn colored. willis
the other fints were deeply stained
like the fossil bones found with them.