New-York tribune., 1920-10-31

to search for the missing
Ink, the legendary, to many the
pathological, 'onnectlon between
nan and the apes Why Asia? The
ldest indlsputably human remains
lave been found in England and
Germany, while the most ancient
traces left by man are in the caves
cf france.
TIE most ancient, human relic
thus far discovered is the jaw Of the
so-calle1 Heidelberg man. This is
fossil found near Heidelberg in geo.
logical strata witch indicate it's age
as being from 100000 to 250,0OO
years. Of still greater age, prob
ably 100000 years, are the frag-
ments of a skull and jaw and one
tcoth known as the Piltdown man,
discovered in England few years
sgo. But the trouble with the Pilt-
down remains is that it is still mat
ter Of argumen, whether the Pilt-
down jaw belongs TO the human skull
or to the skull Of a chimpanzee.
Ahead of the Missing Link
And ifsit should be admitted that
the Piltdown fossils are human the
cid gentleman would still be far
:.head Of the missing link, for the
reconstructed Piltdown skull is we'll
advanced along tie line of character
istically human evolution.
Next in poin. of age after the
admittedly human Heidelberg man
is the Neanderthal race as the i'm
mediate predecessors of modern man.
They existed in western Europe as
recently as from $4,000 to $4,000
years ago, and a considerable amount
Ct fossil material Of them, including
practically complete skeletons, has
been found. Anthropologists consid-
cr them as representing what is
robably a distinct species Of man,
resenting somc features never
found elsewhere combined in any
human race AMI some quite outside
the limits of var alton Of recent man.
he original discovery was made in
the Neander Valley, near Dusseldorf,
Germany, in 1856. Later discoveries
lave been made in Belgium, France,
Croatia and Spain and on the Isle Of
Jersey, in the Erglish Channel.
The Cro-Magnon Race
After the disappearance Of the
Neanderthal race came, In Europe
at any rate. highly evolved race in
no respect inferior to modern man.
This was the Cro-Iagnon race.
which has left It's traces in mural
paintings and sculptures on the
walls of the limestone grottoes Of
Southern Fran and Spain. The
famous process ion of mammoths
painted and cal ged by Gro Magnon
artists is on ths walls Of the cave
of Font de Gaume, Dordogne,
France.
The immediate progenitors of
contemporary man in Europe were
4 ~unters of the New Stone Age
They came from the East, as did the
Gro -Magnon race, that may have ex-
terminated the Neanderthal race
Thus, with one exception, all the
known remains of mans ancestors
have been found in Europe The
exception Is the Trinil ape-man,
found in Java in 1891 by Eugene
Dubois, Dutch army surgeon. The
Trinil fossils consist of part Of q
skull, two molar teeth and q tn Ugh
bone. Their age is approximately
100000 years. But whether they
are human or ape is still a matter
of conjecture. The top of the era
mum is far more human than any
known ape Uranium, but at the same
time far more apelke than any
human Uranium. Anthropologists
consider it possible that this ape
nan was related to the Neandertha
man.
This last discovery, the Trini
apo-man. might be considered &
good reason for locking in Asia fol
the missing link except that Javs
is a long way from the Tibetar
plateau The better reason is tina
the Gro -Magnon race and the hunt
crs of the New Stone Age both came
.nto Europe from the East.
W. ID, Matthew in his Climate
and Evolution. Annals of the New
70. k 4 cademy of SciShce, says:
Why Asia?
"Whatever agencies may be as
signed as the cause Of evolution O
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