The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-05-13
MAN POLYCENETIC
= not M1N0GENETlc
Sayalt Finss Proof of Theory in
Survey of Skulls Of Apes
and Anthropoids.
THEORY HiSED ON DAWN MAN
Hitherto Evidence Has Been Lacking
That Man Was Not Descended
From One lins-More Than
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 polygenetic instead Of monoge-
netic In origin, as evolutionists have
long thought.
DR.. Hill-Tout says he discovered his
proof in 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 precursion, 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
Pllocene period. 1t probably ante
dates by some thousands Of years
pfthecanthropus erectus. Unlike the
latter, eoanthropus is relatively higher
developed in it's cranial Characters
tics.
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 1t is a primitive type we
learn, for While 1t possesses a well de-
veloped head, it also has the chinless
Jaw and the canine teeth of the an.
thropods.
Indeed, it differs from. the young
anthropoids only in It's larger cranial
capacity. 1t is clear from the evil
dence, both of the humanlike charac-
tiers of the dawn man and the young
anthropoids, that the low-browed pithe-
cold was not a primitive man. In
other words. he followed anthropoid
development rather than the human,
and so lost his chance with the hui
man race.
Changes Theory.
1.-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 polygeneuc origin.
IF we now want to discover mans
Oldest ancestor we must go 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 exempllfied 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 OF
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 phiIogsGy 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 thar
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
trating his theories.