The herald., 1922-03-30

much more stumbling, slouching gait than We A.
Nevertheless, his brain was far larger than ma,
of any ape.
''Our knowledge of other extinct forms NJ IN.
human family is much less complete One vhlA
was and is STILL the subject Of much conroyprr
is the famous Piltdown man, whose remains wen
discovered in Sussex just before the recent war
AnthropolOgiSts admit the skull to be genuDey
human and of a much higher type than that a
Neanderthal man on account of the more ROUNDED
top of the head. Nevertheless, this man was ge
ologically older than Neanderthal man. The Low.
er jaw is not like a mans but chimpanzees and
some of the ablest American PSYCHOLOGISTS claim
1t TO have belonged to chimpanzee and there
lore deny its connection with the brain-case Eng
fish anthrOpOlOgists on the other hand believe The
jaw and the brain-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 best
the determination of third species known a
Pithecanthropus (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 skulltp
were discovered few teeth and a thigh-bone the
latter resembling so closely the thigh Of modem
skSll-top and thigh-bone were owned by the SAN,
individual, this Javan species walked erect as We
do; 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
have been So and that source is the fragmentag
skeleton ~ Rhodesian man recently discovered
buried in a cave at Broken Hill. in Rhodesia.
this man the leg bones were typicaly human, but
the top of the skull is very little vaulted and
shows scarcely trace of forehead, defect par.
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
massive and prominent. Nevertheless, the palate
and teeth and other cranial features are human
in type.
IAN answer can now be given to your question
Have researches into the past history Of man n
yeaed the existence of q species combining %
such an extent the characters Of apes and men
as to deserve the title Missing Link'T The m
swer is emphaticaly NO Admittedly, every one
of the species above enumerated shows In vary
ing degree ape-like characters more or less l@
In existing man but so far as the material avsh
able warrants an opinion, they all belong unns
takably to the human family. Even the socalkS
apeman of Java which has the most apehN
sku-top Of all, must be classified as a man on sr
count of the structure of his legs. The same Voua
apply in my opinion. to the Rhodesian man. ese
if his skull and teeth were much more apedn
than they are.
although II is probable that none Of the ezlma
men above mentioned stands in the direct line
our descent, being our cousins rather than cu
ancestors. it is impossible to avoid the concus"
hat fba nrnpanitor Of existing must INV
been hideous, brutal-looking being judged w w
standard of beauty. You can visualize him WIZ
out my help. You may see traces of him cropp@
up as reversions in all sorts of people, and r
haps it may interest you to know what are p'p
and low characters In the people you mee' ~
amuse you to detect them in your frends :"
may, generally speaking, regard as low cnA~
tiers: "a retreating forehead with thickened n.-'
ewes small and deeply sunk nose with low of~s
thickened at the end and expanded round inc y"
trils; cheekbOnes high; jaws massive anu ~
iecting: chin receding; lower incisor TEEN ~
ing the upper edge to edge; ear with haae -
upper rim and well-defined Darwins iooe
the other hand, high forehead without y"
thickenng; large and moderately insunA
a nose with a high bridge and nor tmcAe 80
the end or expanded round the nostrils; low -
bones small vertical jaws; prominent cnD, .,
or incisor teeth closing behind the upPu'
with a well-cured rim and indstinct D""
Iobe'-these may be taken as high eha ~
indicating suppression of ancestral traits
physiognomy. If you look at the Greek 80 80
YOU will see that, without the stimulus Oh a..
edge of anthropology, the Greek cone'p ...ss
human beauty led TO the chiselihg OF iea' eau ,hss
a high type, as different as can De ifoD
of primitive man.