The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-04-14
HAS NEW THEORY
ON ORIGIN OF MAN
NOTED PSYCHOLOGIST HAS DE-
VELOPED NEW IDEAS ABOUT
MANS EARLY LIFE

LOS ANGELES-(By A. P.)-Dr.
Charles Hill-Tout, Phi. D. of the ex-
ecutive committee of the American
Institute, of Research, member of
the Archaeological Institute of Amer
lea, Fellow of the Royal Society of
Canada and of the Royal Anthropo-
logical Institute of Great Britain, is
preparing a report to be submitted
to the Royal Socety of Canada at its
May meeting, containing what he as
serts is evidence that man Is poly
genetic instead of monogenetic IN
origin, as evolutionists have long
thought.
DR.. Hill Tout says he discovered his
proofs while working upon clew he
found in a survey of the skulls of
apes and anthropoids. He contends
that his report will show that nature,
when men 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
descended from one line.
DR.. Hill-Tout believes the discovery
eliminates completely two links in the
chain of the pedigree of man, who,
developing along opposite lines, has
perpetuated his ancestral characters
and attained brain expansion which
has given him the sovereignty over
all other forms of life.
'eThis 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-
IL Al
DR.. Hill-Tout.
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
Pliocene period. 1t probably ante
dates by some thousands Of years
Evecus. Unlike the
latter Eoanthropusis relatively high
er developed in its cranial characters.
ats cranial capacity is greater
than that of many of the men of the
backward races of today. Most of it's
,ranial characters are remarkably
modern in type, having much the
same contours as that of the young
That it is a primitive
type we learn, for while it posses
we'll developed head, it also has the
,hinless Jaw and the cannite teeth of
he anthropoids.
"Indeed it differs from the young
only in its larger cranial
1t is clear from the evil
lence, both of the human-like char
lcters of the dawn man and the
-oung anthropoids that the low
,rowed Pithecoid was not a primitive
nan. In other words he followed
nthropoid development rather than
he human and so lost his chance with
he human race.
'sThe discovery of men with modern
ranial characters, living thousands
f years earlier than Neandertahl
nan, and the discovery of the dawn
nan, Eoanthropus, in 1912 in Eng
and forces us to give up the mono
.enetic origin of man and accept the
origin.
'If we now want to discover mans
ldest ancestor we must go to EOan-
hropus and not to Pithecanthropus,
or the former has all the characters
yhich promen should possess, char
cters which were common to the first
ian and to the first anthropoid apes
S exemplified in the cranial charac-
ars of the young of both species to-
ay
III or, according 10 tHSt SIedt piSc
etic principle, more commonly
nown as Baer's law, we see why the
kulls of the young of the Neander-
ahl race and the young of the an
1ropoids or human-like apes are so
ifferent from those of their parents.
he principle expressed by this law
gnifies that the ontogeny of the in
recapitulates the philogeny
the race-and this is where the law
lrows light upon the problems under
,nsideration-tha the young of any
,ecies represent more truly and
osely than do the adult members of
lie species the actual ancestral type
ON which they spring."
A large collection of photographs
i'll be used by DIR. Hill-Tout in illus
ting his theories.