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

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interested In his stors-especial.
~ In those away back who lived In
trees and caves and ate their food
Ia S2 raw. Most especially Is he interest.
IIl(WIItTT0lII ed In that ancestor who was the
uNWlIIIX Missing I.ink--tbe connecting link
WulY between monkey ana man.
y Civilized man these days Is dscov-
ering relies of man pretty far back
but the Missing Link appears still
10 be missing. That Ii TO say. modern has
not yet succeeded In Ing relics OF an animal
10 intermediate between ape aud man that he
could not be definitely assigned to either
This search for the Missing Link Is going on
a'i over the world, In spite Of the fact that there
are scientists who boldly avow disbelief In Oar.
wins theory OF the origin of species and In evo-
inuon Some of these scientists believe 10 spon.
taneous combustion OF life from protoplasm. Some
believe that life introduced upon this earth
from another body In space Just the same this
ola earth II being rolled and scraped at the
pense OF millions 10 find the Missing Link.
Inc most recent "hnd" that is Interesting the
scientists IL fossilzed skull discovered In North
ern khodesia. The scientlsts-at least some OF
them--say that the DarwinIan theory that Africa
may nave been the original home of the human
race Is greatly strengthened by this skull
This Rhodesin skull Is complete with the excep-
Hon OF the lower jaw. Moreover. collar bone,
reg Done and part of hip bone believed to
belong To the skull also have been unearthed and
THESE may enable anatonlsts to reconstruct the
main parts OF the whole Rhodesian skeleton
The scene OF the discovery was the Bone cave"
OF the broken nm mine already famous for the
beauty OF Its staiactites aud staiagmites and for
the remarkable fact that the lime OF which they
were originally composed have been largely re-
placed by phosphaies OF zinc and lead.
" was the commercial value OF these forma.
lions that led TO the transformation OF this cave
into one OF the strangest mines ever worked The
noor consisted Of mass OF fossllized remains
Of elephants. lions, leopards rhlnoceri hippopot.
ami. anteiopes, birds. bats and small mammals
Hundreds Of tons of these animal remains had
been removed. but no trace OF man was discovered
nntil depth of 90 feet below water level was
reached, when the bones described were found
surrounded by soft, frlabe lead conglomerate
The Illustrations show photographs OF the Rho
deslan skull In the figure showing varying types
of skulls Is that OF the so-called Javan ape man
found In Java la 1894. which lacks n face II Ia
the skull OF the Neanderthai man. NO called from
the valley In the Rhine province where the first
skull OF the type was discovered In 1887 q In
the skull OF the Piltdown man. whose remains
were discovered In SUSSEX just before the World
war. ID Is the skull of the Rhodesian man. Ii
the skull OF negro and y the skull Of Kaimuck
Tartar. representing existing species OF n man
Joseph Meade calls the Rhodesian ind ''the
most Interesting human bones that have seen the
light since science first began to talk about IN.
antiquity Of man." lie says they are ut least
half million years old and bring man nearer
10 us poor fehuohs, apes, than he
before And they throw most important new light
upon the fascinating story OF our evolution. lie
says among other things:
We have found the skull and some other bones
OF the most primitive man known TO us1
In this case we need not wait for biologists to
quarrel with each other about the age The skull
Is Of the most perfectly preserved that we
have. and the brutality of the brain that once
lodged Ia that grlsly Uranium leaps to the eye. as
the French say.
Nearest like Ape.
| take down from the top Of my library the
whitened skull of low type Of Australian. and
compare the two. The Australian Is a gentleman,
aeademieinn beside this, I run over the photo
graphs OF all the primitive human skulls we have
aud this old.worid African Is nearer To the ape
than any
The skull found at pntdown few years ago
though 10000 years old, Is too respectable 10
brook comparison. Only the skull-cap OF what IL
known all over the world as the ape-man of Java
near II and the new skull Is decidedly In
ferlor.
How did he get to Rhodesinp Here Is a large
part Of the interest of--let us say II frankly-the
IN Java the nearest In Sussex
Picture that great triangle In your mind and
you get good idea OF the cradle ~ the human
race. Most Of us have long held that IL was ON
land which Is now below the waves OF the Indian
oeean Gas We know. a lost biz OF Africa which
once connected IL with lnda.
The new discovery strongly confirms this and II
Viii not be pleasant reading for the Americans