The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-05-17
Man POLYCENET|C
NOT M0N0CENET|C
Savant Finds Proof Of Theory in
Survey of Skulls Of Apes
and Anthropoids.
THEORY BASED ON DAWN MAN
Hitherto Evidence Has Been Lacking
That Man Was Not Descended
From One Line-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 he Archaeological
Institute, fellow Of the Royal Society
Of Canada and Of the Royal Anthro-
biological Institute of Great Britain. is
preparing q report to be submitted to
the Royal Society of Canada contain
ing what hi 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 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 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 q brain expansion which has
given him the sovereignty over all
other forms Of life.
Theory Based on dawn Of Man."
"This theoretical conception Of
homosimiIus %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, e%oanthropus, or the
"dawn man." DR.. Hill-Tout says:
'This ancient man roamed over the
southern downs Of England when the
British isles were a part of the main
land Of Europe, at the close Of the
Pnocene period. It probably ante
dates by some thousands Of years
pithecanthropus 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 it,
cranial characters are remarkably
modern in type. having much the same
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poids. That 1t is a primitive type We
learn, for while 1t possesses q well de-
veloped head, 1t also has he chinless
jaw and the canine teeth Of the IN
thropoids.
Indeed, 1t differs from the young /
anthropoids only in It's larger cranial
capacity. It is clear from the evi-
dence, both of the humanlike charac-
tiers of the dawn man and the young
a~nthrepoids, that the l0w-browed pithe-
cold was not q primitive In
other words, hi followed anthropoid
rather than the human,
and so lost his chance with the hui
man rae
Changes Theory.
1.-THE discovery OF man with mod
ern cranial characters, living thou
sands Of years earlier han the Mean
man, and the discovery Of the
dawn man, forces us to give up the
monogenetic origin of man and &C
,ept the p~olygenetic origin.
IF we now want to discover mans
oldest ancestor we must 70 to eoan-
and : to pithecanthrepus, fer
he former has all the characters
which promen should possess, charac-
ers which were common to the first
nan and to the first anthropoid apes
IS exemplined in the crafial charac-
ers Of the young Of both species to
lay.
FOR. according to that great btsge-
letic principle, more commonly known
s Baer's law. we see why the skulls
I the young Of the N~eanAerthal race
nd the young Of the anthropelds or
lumanlike apes, are 50 different frsm
hoae Of their parents. Tho principle
xpfessed by this law signifies that
hs ontogeny Of the individual 70
the philogeny Of the race-
nd this IL where the law throvs
ght upon the problems under consid-
the young Of any species
.present moro truly and closely than
0 the adult members Of the species
,e actual ancestral type from which
10y spring"
A large collection Of photographs
Ill be used by DR.. Hill-Tout in illuE
'ating his theories.