Cleveland County herald., 1921-06-02
MAN .YGENETIC NOT MONOCENETIC
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, Ph. 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 a 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 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
  chain of the pedigree of man, who, de- veloping along opposite lines, has per petuated his ancestra! 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, eeanthropus, 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 Pliocene period. It probably ante dates by some thousands of years pithecanthropus erectus. Unlike the latter, eoanthropus is relatively higher developed in it's cranial characteris- tics.
 Its cranial capacity is 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 contour as that of the young anthro- poids. That it is a primitive type we learn, for While it possesses a well de veloped head, it also has the chinless jaw and the canine teeth of the an thropoids
 Indeed, 1t differs from the young anthropoids only in it's larger cranial capacity. It is clear from the evil dence, both of tie humanlike charac- ters of the dawn man and the young anthropoids, that the low-browed pithe- cold was not 8 primitive man. In other words. he followed anthropoid development rather than the human, and so lost his chance with the hu- man race.
 Changes Theory.
 '"Phe discovery of man with mod ern cranial characters, living thou sands of years earlier than the Nean- derthal man, and the discovery of the dawn man, forces us to give up the monogenetic origin of man and ac- cept the polygenetic 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- ters which were common to the first man and to the first anthropoid apes as exemplifed in the crania charac- ters 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 or 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 philogeny 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 than 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.