The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1922-03-24

much more stumbling slouchng gait than we do.
Nevertheless, his brain far larger than that
of any ape.
Our knowledge Of other extinct forms of the
human family Is much less complete One which
was. and Is still, the subject Of much controversy
Is the famous PitdOwn man. whose remains were
discovered in Sussex just before the recent war.
Anthropologsts admit the skull to be genuinely
human and OF much higher type than that of
Neandertha man on account of the rounded
top OF the head Nevertheless this man was ge-
, ologicaly older than Neanderthal man. The low
err Jaw Is not like mans but a chimpanZee's and
some OF the ablest American PSYCHOLOGISTS claim
IL 10 have belonged to chimpanzee, and there
Iore deny Its connection with the brain-case. Eng.
iish anthropooglsts on the other hand believe the
Jaw ana the brain-case to have come from the
same individual There the matter must rest I'M
Ill further discoveries settle the question under
dispute.
difficulties of somewhat similar nature beset
the determination of third Species known as
Pithecanthropus (the ape-man) which was found
In Java In 1894. The brain was inferior In size
10 that or any known man. living extinct, but
surpassed that of any ape. Near this sku-top
We're discovered u few teeth and a thigh-bone the
latter resembling so closely the thigh of modern
man as TO leave no reasonable doubt that If the
skuii-top and thighbone owned by the same
individual, this Javan species walked erect as we
90; and since that Is usually assumed to be the
case we see that the human type of leg was per-
fected before the skull in human evolution.
From another source we now know this to
have been so; and that source Is the fra ginentarv
skeleton or Rhodesian man recently discovered
buried In cave at Broken HILL In Rhodesia In
this man the leg bones were typicay human bur
the top of the skull Is very little yauted and
shows scarcely a trace of forehead defect part
ly due to the immense development of the brow
ridges The face Is very broad across the eyes.
and very high from the edge of the orbit down
to the lower margin of the jaw bone which IL
massive and prominent Nevertheless the naIote
and teeth and other cranial features are human
In type.
AN answer can now be given to your question
Have researches into the past history of man re-
vealed the existence of a species combininy m
such an extent the characters of apes and men
as to deserve the title missing Link"? The an
swer Is emphatcally NO Admittedly every ono
of the species above enumerated shows In n vary
Ing degree ape-like characters more or less lost
IN existing man; but far as the material avail
able warrants an opinion. they all belong unmis
takabiy to the human family. Even the soca,led
ape-man OF Java, which has the most ape-like
skull-top of all, must be classified as a man ~, 90
count OF the structure of his legs The same wou,d
apply In my opinion, TO the Rhodesan man, even
II his skull and teeth were much more apa-like |
than they are
Although 1t Is probable that none of the extinc,
men above mentioned stands In the direct line os
our descent. being our cousins rather than orr |
ancestors, II Is impossible to avoid the conc,pSion
that the progenitor of existing man must have
been hideous. brutaooking being Judged nv opr
standard OF beauty. You can visualize him with
out my help. You may see traces OF him cronn;p, I
up as reversions In all sorts of people and nor
haps II may interest you to know what are bich.
and low characters in the people you meet ana
amuse you to detect them In your friends yop
may, generally speaking regard as low. choroo
tiers Il rctreating forehead with thickenad br,,,.
eyes small and deeply sunk nose with low hria,.
thickened at the end and expanded round tho nos
trils; cheek-bones high jaws massive and mr.
Jecttng; chin receding; lower incisor teetb moo,
ing the upper edge to edge: ear with n 1attapaa
upper rim and well-defned Darwin's loha, ~, t
the other hand. a high forehead without h-o
thickening; large and moderately insunk evss
a nose with high bridge and not thickepoS -,
the end or expanded round the nostrils. low choat
bones; small vertical jaws a prominent chin , low
er inetSor teeth closing behind the minor, O.
with weh-curied rim and indiStinct Darwin,
lohe-theSe may be taken as high cbaroo,,.
indicating suppression OF ancestral traits IN 80
IL you look at the Gree. sta.,n
you VIII See that without the stimulus of n Lr,,r,
edge or anthropolegy. the Greek concsntinr :,
human beauty led To the chiseling OF featnras =,
high type, as different as can be from ,h,sa
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