The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-05-12
MAN POLYCENETIc
NOT MONOCENET|C
Savant Finds Proof Of Theory in
Survey Of Skulls Of Apes
and kntaropoids.
THEORY BASED ON Dawn MAN
Hitherto Evidence Has Been Lacking
That Man Was Not Descended
From One Line-More Than.
One Specimen Produced.

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| One Specimen Produced.
| Los Angeles, Cal.-Dr. Charles Hill.
Tout, Phi. D., Of the executive commit.
tee OF the American Institute Of Re
search, member Of the Archaeological
institute. fellow of the Royal Society
Of Canada and Of the Royal Anthro-
biological Institute Of Great Britain, is
preparing report to be submitted to
| the Royal Society Of Canada contain
ing what he asserts is evidence that
man Is polygcnetic instead of monose-
netic In origin, as evolutionists have
tong thought
DR.. Hill-Tout says he discovered his
proof in Il survey of the skulls OF
apes and anthropoids. He contends
that his report will show that nature,
when man was in the making, turned
out more than one specimen, as science
always claimed, in the case Of the
anthropoids. Hitherto evidence has
been lacking that man was not de-
Scended from one line.
Dr. Hill-Tout believes the discovery
eliminates completely two links in the
chain of the pedigree of man, who, de-
veloping along opposite lines, has per-
petuated his ancestral characters and
attained brain expansion which has
given him the sovereignty over all
other forms of life.
Theory Based on "Dawn Of Man."
This theoretical conception Of
homosimilus precursi0n, the ancestor
common to man and the apes, is shown
to be founded in fact by the discovery
of the most interesting of all our fossil
human remains, ,eoanthropus, or the
dawn man." DR.. Hill-Tout says:
This ancient man roamed over the
southern downs of England when the
British isles were part of the main
land Of Europe, at the close Of the
Pliocene period. 1t probably ante
dates by some thousands of years
pithecanthropus erectus. Unlike the
latter, eoanthropus is relatively higher
developed in it's craniaI characters
tics. +t
Its cranial capacity is greater than
that Of many of the men of the back
ward races Of today. Most of its
cranial characters are remarkably
modern In type, having much the same
contour as that of the young anthro-
poids. That it is primitive type we
learn, for while it possesses well de-
veloped head, it also has the chinless
Jaw and the canine teeth Of the an
thropoids
Indeed, it differs from the young
anthropoids only in its larger cranial
capacity. 1t is clear from the evil
dence, both of the humanlike charac-
ters of the dawn man and the young
anthropoids, that the low-browed pithe-
cold was not primitive man. In
other words, he followed anthropoid
development rather than the human,
and so lost his chance with the hu-
man race.
Changes Theory.
"The discovery of man with mod
ern cranial characters, living thou
sands of years earlier than the Mean
derthal man, and the discovery of the
dawn man, forces us to give up the
monogenetic origin of man and &C.
cept the polygenetic origin.
IF we now want to discover mans
Oldest ancestor we must 60 to eoan-
thropus and not to pithecanthropus, for
the former has all the characters
which prOmen should possess, charac-
tiers which were common to the first
man and to the first anthropoid apes
as exemplihed in the cranial charac-
tiers Of the young Of both species to-
day.
"For, according to that great bioge-
netic principle, more commonly known
as Baer's law, we see why the skulls
Of the young Of the Neanderthal race
and the young Of the anthropoids or
humanlike apes, are SO different from
those Of their parents. The principle
expressed by. this law signifies that
the ontogeny of the individual re-
capitulates the philogeny Of the race
and this Is where the law throws
light upon the problems under consid-
eration-that the young of any species
represent more truly and closely than
do the adult members Of the species
the actual ancestral type from which
they spring."
A large collection Of photographs
will be used by DR.. Hill-TOut In illus