Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-06-29
MAN" LIVED
100000 YEARS
AGO, 7. R. wrote
Professor Gamers Discovery
Of talking Monkey"
=, Brings Back Report Of
Roosevelt.

Washington. D. c, June ,2s%
Especially Newspaper reports that
Prof. r. L. Garner of the Smithson-
ian institution OF Washington, D. c.,
has found in the French Congo a
man-monkey" or talking ape" lend
interest to a communication sent by
the late Theodore Roosevelt to the
National Geographic society, telling
Of the pre-human ape man of Java.
who lived some 100000 years ago,
an marked an upward stage in the
evolution of man.
Colonel Roosevelt's famous jungle
hunt was in the vicinity of Professor
Gamers travels, as they are describ-
e1 in newspaper dispatches, and the
Roosevelt big game is mounted in
the Smithsonian institution. with
Professor Garner is associated.
Told of cape Man."
Regarding this "ape-man" Of
Java, one Of many "missing links"
in human evolution. Colonel Roose-
wrote to the National Geographic
Society:
This being was already half way
upward from the beast, half way
between true man and those Mino-
Gene ancestors of his, who were still
on the psychic and intellectual
level Of their divereing kinsfolk. the
anthropoid apes. He, or some crea-
ture like him, was i'll our own line
OF ascent during these uncounted
ages when our ancestors were
already different from all other
brutes and yet had not grown to
really man. He probably used a
stone or a club at need; and about
this time he may ave begun very
rudely to chip or otherwise fashion
stones to his use.
his progress Was very, very
slow; the marked feature i'll
the progress Of man has been its
great acceleration of rapidity in
each successive stage, accompanied
continually by an inexplicable halt
or dying out in race after race and
culture after culture.
after the "ape-man" of Java
we skip 100000 years or so
so, before we get our next glimpse
of a near-human predecessor of
of ours. This is the Heidelberg
man, who lived in the warm second
interglacial period, surrounded by a
fauna of huge, fearsome beasts,
which included the saber-tooth and
the hippopotamus, and also rhinoc-
ere ses and elephants OF southern
type.
HE was a chinless being. whose
Jaw was still so primitive that it
must have made his speech imper-
feet; and he was so much lower than
any existing savage as to be at least
specifically distinct, that is, he can
be called human" only If the word
is used with a certain largeness.
Come to Piltdown Man.
again we make a long skip, this
time of somewhat over 100000
years, and come to the Piltdown
mar, or near-man, a being SEEM
inely q little farther advanced than
the man of Heidelberg, and some
ways less so, for he possesses ape
like canine teeth.
THE next race was that of the
Neanderthal men. much more mod
ern and more advanced, bnt lower
than any existing savage, and spe-
cifcally distinct from modern men.
This race dwelt in Europe,
without other human rivals
for an immense period of time;
probably at least $4,000 years;
certainly an age several times
as long as the period included
in the interval between the
earliest polished stone men and our:
selves, in other words, several
times as long as the ages of pol
ished stone, bronze, and iron and
the total of historic times all put
together.
Some of their favorite caverns
were lived in by them and by their
successors for $4,000 years.
Not Our Ancestors.
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