Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-03-16

much more stumbling souching gait than we do.
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 PtdoWn man, whose remains were
discovered in Sussex just before the recent war
AnthropolOgsts admit the skull to be genuinely
human and of a much higher type than that of
Neandertha man on account of the, more rounded
top Of the head Nevertheless, this ge-
ologically older than Neanderthal man. The low
err jaw is not like mans but chimpanzees, and
some of the abest American PSYCHOLOGISTS claim
it to have belonged to a chimpanzee, and there
fore deny its connection with the brain-case. Eng
lSh anthropologsts on the other hand, believe the
Jaw ana the Drain-case to have come from the
same individual. There the matter must rest ul-
I'll further discoveries settle the question under
dispute.
difficulties of a somewhat similar nature beset
the determination of a third Species known as
Plthecanthropus (the ape-man), which was found
IN Java in 1894. The brain was inferior in size
to that of any known man, living or extinct, but
surpassed that of any ape. Near this skull-top
were discovered few teeth and thigh-bone, the
latter resembling 50 closely the thigh of modern
man as to leave no reasonable doubt that if the
Skull-top and thigh-bOne were owned by the same
individual, this Javan species walked erect as we
40; 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 fragmentary
skeleton OF Rhodesian man. recently discovered
buried in a 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-
vealed 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 alphabetically 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 as the material avail
able warrants an opinion, they all belong unmis-
takably to the human family Even the so-caed
apeman of Java, which has the most apeke
sku-top Of all, must be classified as a 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-ike
than they are
although it is probable that none of the extinct
men above mentioned stands in the direct line of
our descent, being our cousins rather than our
ancestors, it is impossible to avoid the conclusion
that the prOgenitor of existing man must have
been hideous, brutaI-lookng being judged by our
standard of beauty. You visualize him with
out my help. You may see traces of him cropping
I'D as reversiOns in all sorts Of people, and per-
hans 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-
tiers: a retreating forehead with thickened brow ;
eyes small and deeply sunk; nose with low bridge.
thickened at the end and expanded round the nos
trils; cheek-bOnes high jaws massive and pro-
iecting; chin receding; lower incisor teeth meet
ing the upper edge to edge; ear with a hattened
INNER rim and well-defned Darwin's lobe On
tho other hand a high forehead without brow
thickenng; large and moderately nsunk eyes
q nose with a high bridge and not thckened at
the end or expanded round the nostrils low cheek
bones; small vertical jaws; prominent chin low
or incisor teeth closing behind the upper; ear
with a wecurled rim and indistinct Darwin's
lobe'-these may be taken high characters
indicating suppression Of ancestral traits In our
physiognomy. If you look at the Greek statues
YOU will see that, without the stimulus of n knowl-
edge of 7nthropoogy, the Greek conception Of
human beauty led to the chlseling Of features Of
OF primitive man."