New Britain herald., 1916-01-26
OFFERS $l,0O0 FOR
 EVOLUTION FACTS
Chicago Man Wants to Know How
 Theory Of Growth Works

Washington, Jan. 26A-One thousand dollars is offered for information tna' may show how evolution takes place. in an announcement yesterday by the American Genetic association.
 There is no longer any room for doubt that evolution does take place, according to this body of scientists But there is still debate on the ques- tion of just how it works, and to set tie this question more information is needed.
 Rewards of $2OO Each.
 Such information is believed by c. l.. Redfield, a Chicago member, to be in the hands of genealogists, livestock breeders, college students and natural ists, and in order to enlist the co-oper- ation of these people he has offered through the Journal of Heredity, or gan of the American Genetic asso- citation, five rewards of $200 each.
 He will pay $2OO for evidence that any one of the two or three thousand intellectually great men or women of history was the product of an ances- try which represented, on the aver age, four generations to century.
 He will pay another s2OO for evi- dence that any one of the two or three hundred extraordinarily great men or women was the product Of an ancestry which represented on the average three generations to a cen tury.
 Intellectual Greatness.
 MT. Redfeld holds that intellectual greatness can not occur in conjunc- tion with a series of early reproduc- tions, and these offers are intended to draw out information on that point.
 Mem bers of the American Genetic association have for the past year been Investigating this question, and have found that most great man come from old parents. They have been able to discover but two cases of eminent men where the ancestry represented. on the average, as little as thirty three years to a generation. These are William the Conqueror and Fred er1ck the Great If there are any other great men in the history of the world who were the products of sev- eral generations of early reproduc- tion, MT. Redfie1d wants to find our the circumstances.
 Inherit Results of Work.
 In his view of evolution every animal inherits some of the results  leads to the belief that the parents which are worked hardest and long est produce the best offspring. If the parents are never developed by work he thinks their offspring will have no chance of being superior.
 He accordingly offers $20O for evil dence from livestock breeding which will show that where the parents made acquirem ents which were dis tinctly below the standard, in respect to work performed, the offspring sur passed the parents.
 Fall Below Standard.
 He believes, indeed, that the off spring will fall below the standard of the breed, in any case where the requirements of the parents were distinctly below the standard Ac- cordingly, he will pay $20O for evil dence that offspring ever failed to fall below the standard in such a case
 Finally he will pay s2OO if it can be shown, for any group of animals, that the amount of improvement or decline in animal powers was not, as nearly as can be determined by the actual records, exactly proportional to the amount of acquirem by an- l cestors above or below the normal or standard
 Horses and Cows.
 The last three cases can be inves- l t1gated to good advantage in the rec l ords of race horses and dairy cows, 1 since in each case it is easy to de- i