New Britain herald., 1921-04-14
SCIENTIST ASSERTS
 MAN POLYGENETIC
Dr. Hill-TOut DiSCreditS MOnO-
 senetiC Theory

Los Angeles, April 14-Dr. Charles Hili-Hout, Ph.D., of the executive committee Of the American Institute of Research, member of the Archeo- logical Institute of America, Fellow of
 the Royal Society of Canada and Of the Royal Anthropological Institute or Great Britain, is preparing a re- port to be submitted to the Royal So- ciety Of Canada at its May meeting. containing what he asserts is evidence that man is polygenetic instead ot
 monogenetic in origin. as evolution ists have long thought.
 Dr. Hill-Tout says he discovered his proofs while working upon a clew he found in a 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 sci- ence always claimed. in the case of the anthropoids. Hitherto evidence has been lacking that man has not descended from one line.
 pr. Hill-Tout believes the discoy- cry eliminates completely two links in the chain of the pedigree of man, who, developing along opposite lines, has perpetuated his ancestral char acters and attained a brain expansion which has given him the sovereignty over all other forms of life.
 '"This theoretical conception of hemo-simius 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. Eoan- thropus. or the Dawn Man." says Dr. Hill-Tout.
 This ancient man roamed over the southern downs of England when tho British Isles were a part of the main- land of Europe at the close Of tho Pliocene period. It probably ante dates by some thousands of years Pithecanthropus Evectus. Unlike the latter Eoanthropusis relatively high CT developed in its cranial characters.
 its cranial capacity ia greater than that of many of the men of the back ward races of today. Most of it's cranial characters are remarkably modern in type, having much the same contours as that of the young anthropoids. That it is a primitive type we learn, for while 1t possesses a we'll developed head, it also has the chinless jaw and the canine teeth of ths anthropoids.
 lnueeu II ITOHl tno young anthropoida only in it's larger cranial capacity. It is clear from the evi- dence, both of the human-like char acters of the dawn man and the young anthropoids that the low browed Pithecoid was not a primitive
 man. In other words he followed anthropoid development rather than the human and so lost his chance with tha human race.
 'The discovery of men with modern cranial characters living thousands Of years earlier than Neandertahl man, and the discovery of the dawn man. Eoanthropus, in 1912 in England. forces ua to give up tho monogenetic origin of man and accept tho poly genetic origin: eff 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. char
 acters which were common to the first
 man and to the first anthropoid apes
 as exemplified in the cranial charac-
 ters of the young of both species to- day. L4- r- For according to that great bi- genetic principle, more commonly known as Baer's law, we see why the skulls of tho young of the Neander-
 thai race and the young of the an- thropbids or human-like apes are so different from those of their parents. The principle expressed by this law signifies that the ontogeny of tho in- divfdual recapitulatea the philogeny of the race-and this is where the law throws light upon the problems under consideration-that the young of any species represent more truly and closely than do the adul. mem bers of the species the actual ancestral type from which they spring.
 "A large collection of photographs will be used by pr. Hill-Tout in illus I trating his theories.