The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-05-13
MAN POL YCENETIC
NOT MONOGENETIC
'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.


NJ Los Angeles, Cal.--Dr. Charles Hill
Tout, PHI. D., of the executive commit
Zee Of the American Institute of Re
search, member of the Archaeological
Institute, fellow of the Royal Society
81 Canada and of the Royal Anthro-
biological Institute Of Great Britain, is
preparing report to be submitted to
fhe Royal Society Of Canada contain
ing what he asserts Is evidence that
man Is polygenetic instead of monoge-
netic In origin, as eyolutionists have
aong thought.
# DIR. HIlI-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
but more than one specimen, as science
always claimed, In the case of the
hnthropoids. 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
fhain of the pedigree of man, who, de-
seIoping along opposite lines, has per-
petuated his ancestral characters and
attained brain expansion which has
given him the sovereignty over all
Dther forms Of life.
Theory Based on Dawn Of Man."
@ "Ths theoretical conception Of
homosimilus precursion, the ancestor
Common to man and the apes, is shown
10 be founded In fact by the discovery
BIZ the most interesting of all our fossil
human remains, eoanthropus, or the
dawn man." DIR. Hill-Tout says:
"This ancient man roamed over the
Southern downs of England when the
British isles were a part of the main
3and Of Europe, at the close Of the
Pliocene period. 1t probably ante
oates by some thousands of years
pithecanthropus erectus. Unlike the
latter, eoanthropus is relatively higher
developed In its cranial characteris-
Tics.
Its cranial capacity Is greater than
that of many of the men of the back
ward races of today. Most of Its
eranial characters are remarkably
modern In type, having much the same
Contour as that of the young anthro.
n poids. That It is a primitive type we
learn, for while 1t possesses a welr de.
yeloped head, 1t also has the chinless
Jaw and the canine teeth of the an.
#hropoids.
Indeed, 1t differs from the young
enthropoids only in its larger cranial
S capacity. 1t Is clear from the evil
slence, both of the humanlike charae-
6ers of the dawn man. and the young
Rnthropoids, that the Iow-browed pithe-
gold was not a primitive man. In
pther words, he followed anthropoid
development rather than the human,
YAnd so lost his chance with the hui
% man race.
Changes Theory.
I'D 1.-The discovery of man with mod.
ern cranlal characters, living thou.
Bands of years earlier than the Mean
Nerthal man, and the discovery of the
daWn' man, forces US to give up the
anonogenetic origin of man and &C,
Rept the polygenetic origin.
M III we now want to discover mans
pldest ancestor we must go. to eoan,
1hropus and not to pithecanthropus, for
me former has all the characters
which prOmen should possess, charac-
zers which We're common to the first
~ 7nan and to the first anthropoid apes
rs exemplifled In the cranial charac.
GERS of the young of both species to.
Nay.
For, according to that great bioge.
petite principle more commonly known
rs baer's law, we see why the skulls
pr the young of the Neanderthal race
no the young of the anthropoids OF
numanlike apes, are so different from
nose of their parents. The principle
expressed by this law signifies thai
ne ontogeny of the individual re
fapituiates the philogeny of the race
bhd this is where the law throws
lght upon the problems under consid.
fration-that the young of any species
epresent more truly and closely thar
fo the adult members of the species
ne actual ancestral type from which
hey spring"
large collection of photographs
Flii be used by DIR. Hill-Tout In Illus
ratinG his theories.
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