Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-01-03
DARN|NS THEORY
SUSSEX SKULL,
Bone Fragments Show Race Of
Ap0|lk0, Speeches. Men
Lived Ages Ago.

4 RACE Of apelike and speeches.
~ men, lnhabiting England hun.
"a dreds of thousands of years
ago, when they had for their
neighbors the mastodon and other ami
mails now extinct, is the missing link
In the chain In mans evolution, which
leading scientists say they have dis
covered in what Is generally described
as "the Sussex skull" To this DR..
Woodward proposes to give the name
Of "enthropus," or man Of dawn"
Professor Arthur Keith says that the
discovery marks by far the most re
markable ndva. ce In the knowledge of
the ancestry Of man ever made In Eng
land and supports the view that mar
was derived not from f single genus or
species, but from several different gen
era. He goes
ut gives US a stage in the evolution
OF man which we have only Imagined
since Darwin ~propounded the theory"
professor Keith expresses the opIn-
ion that the skull Is what anthropolo-
gists have been seeking for forty years
namely, a tertiary man, mankind Of
the pliocene age, which was the be-
ginning Of the first great glacial pc
Rod.
There Ia no doubt at ALL" be said,
that this is the most important dis
covery concerning ancient man ever
made in England. 1t is one Of the three
most important discoveries Of the sort
ever made in the world. The other
two were the discovery Of the individ-
ual known as Pithecanthropus, made
In Java in 1892 by Professor Eugene
Dubois. The other, which equals 1t In
instructiveness and Importance, Is the
skull discovered at Heidelberg x years
ago.
q THE Heidelberg skull is the best
dated one, for 1t was found at a depth
Of eighty feet In a formation acknowl-
edged by every one to belong to the be-
ginning Of the pleistocene period, which
Immediately preceded the great ice age.
Brain Was Primitive.
Regarding the nature Of the new
discovery in size Of brain, It is at least
equal to the brains Of many individ-
uals In living races, but the character
Of the brain is extremely primitive,
more so than In any living race.
THE next thing to note Is that the
skull shows a great number Of the
characteristics which we see in modern
man, especially with regard to the &C.
cipital region Of the skull, the neck and
ear passages and the joint between
mandible and skull, whereas In the
Neanderthal man, who lived at u much
later date than the Sussex woman ut
Is most probably the skull of a woman,
you get all these apelike characters
tics.
This supports the theory that many
Of us hold that In the pleistocene pc
Rod there were at least two very dis
tinet and independent species Of PRINT
tive man and probably many more
than two, which future discoveries will
reveal.
II agree with DIR. Smith Woodward
that the human Individual now diseov-
cred Is an absolutely new type, and no
doubt 1t is an extremely primitive type.
Possibly he has been a little too pre-.
cipitate in saying it belongs to a new
genus of humanity"
Several points of interest have devel-
oped from the scientists examination
Of the skull, watch, by the way, they
are inclined to believe belonged to a
female. The chief point is the size of
the brain cavity, which Is estimated
by DR.. Woodward at 1,070 cubic cent?
meters. This compares with 1000 to
1900 In aboriginal Australian women
and 1850 In the Gibraltar skull, be-
longing to the pleistocene period.
In form the brain was fattened, and,
as in the modern man, the left fore
part of the brain was larger than the
right. Another feature to which at
tention has been drawn is the enor-
mous thickness of the skull. Both
these are points Of resemblance with
the skull Of the N%eanderthal man.
Attention Is drawn to the fact that
in a host Of details, such as the for
nation Of the ear and joints Of the
lower jaw, the skull, unlike that Of the
Neanderthal man, Is Of the human as
opposed to the anthropoid type. The
neck, on the other hand, must have
been squat and apelike and the for
nation Of the chin re~treating, like that
Of a dog.
Proofs That It Was Human.
According to DIR. Wood ward, there
are two points which definitely and
positively mark the skull ss human.