Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1922-03-23

much more ShamDlnS, SlOucnlnS galt than we 90.
Nevertheless his brain was 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 Piltdown man, whose remains were
discovered in Sussex just before the recent war.
AnthrOpologists admit the skull to be genuinely
human and of a much higher type than that of
Neanderthal man on account of the more rounded
top of the head Nevertheless this ge-
olOgically older than NeanderthaI man. The low
er jaw is not like mans but chimpanZee's, and
some Of the ablest American Osteologsts claim
it to have belonged to a chimpanzee, and there
fore deny its connection with the brain-case Eng
lish anthropologsts the other hand, believe the
jaw and the brain-caSe to have come from the
individual. There the matter must rest I'M
til further discoveries settle the question under
dispute.
Difficulties Of a somewhat similar nature beset
the determination of a third species, known as
PithecanthrOpus (the apeman), which was found
in Java in 1894. The brain inferior in size
to that of any known man, living or extinct, but
surpassed that of any ape. Near this skull-tOp
were discovered a few teeth and thigh-bone the
latter resembling so closely the thigh Of modern
man as to leave no reasonable doubt that if the
skul-top and thighbOhe were owned by the same
individual, this Javan species walked erect as we
do and since that is usually assumed to be the
fected before the skull in human evolution
From another source we now know this to
have been so; and that source is the fragmentary
skeleton of Rhodesian man recently discovered
buried in cave at Broken Hill, in Rhodesia In
this man the leg bones were typically human but
the top of the skull is very little vaulted and
shows scarcely 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 is
massive and prominent. Nevertheless the palate
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-
veaed the existence of a species combining to
such an extent the characters of apes and men
as to deserve the title missing Link'T The an
swer is emphatically No. Admittedly every one
of the species above enumerated shows in a vary
ing degree ape-like characters more or less lost
in existing man; but far the material avail
able warrants opinion, they all belong unmis-
takably to the human family. Even the so-called
ape-man of Java, which has the most ape-like
skull-top of all, must be classified as man on ac-
count of the structure of his legs The same would
apply in my opinion. to the Rhodesian man. even
if his skull and teeth were much more ape-like
than they are.
although it is probable that none of the extinct
men above mentioned stands in the direct line of
our descent being cousins rather than our
ancestors it is impossible to avoid the conclusion
that the prOgenitor of existing man must have
been hdeOus, brutal-lOoking being judged by our
standard of beauty. You visualize him with
out my help You may traces of him cropping
up reversions in all sorts of people, and per-
haps it may interest you to know what are high
and low characters in the people you meet and
amuse you to detect them in your friends You
may, generally speaking, regard as low charac-
ters: retreating forehead with thickened brow
eyes small and deeply sunk with low bridge
thickened at the end and expanded round the nos
trils cheek-bones high; jaws massive and pro-
jecting; chin receding; lower incisor teeth meet
ing the upper edge to edge; with a fattened
upper rim and weldefned Darwin's lobe On
the other hand, a high forehead without brow
thickening; large and moderately insunk eyes
a nose with a high bridge and not thickened at
the end or expanded round the nostrs low cheek
bones; small vertical jaws; prominent chin low
er incisor teeth closing behind the upper; ear
with a well-curled rim and indistinct Darwin's
lobe'-these may be taken as high characters
indicating suppression of ancestral traits In our
physiognOmy. If you look at the Greek statues
you will that without the stimulus of knowI-
edge of anthropOlogy, the Greek conception of
human beauty led to the chiseling of features of
a high type as different as can be from those
of primitive man."