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

VINO have just gone to look for the remains Of prim-
tive man In central Asia
Lehuria, the lost continent to the east Of Africa,
was probably the region where some accident OF
tme brought mans ancestor down from the nut
laden trees aud babe him work for a living"
from that center he would pass easily to Asia
ana Africa, and he would reach Europe by the
route which would bring the Babylonian mer-
chants ages afterward
H. focock writes Interestingly about the Rho
desian skull In comparison with other prehistoric
skulls and In connection with the missing Link"
IN conquest Uondon). He says, among other
things:
In an article on mans descent, published In
FEBRUARY. 1920 laid all the stress could on the
Importance of mans foot, pointing out that II DIFF
fers essentially from that OF the apes In having the
great toe unopposable to the others and bound
closely to them so that the foot Is functionaly
perfect as may be for swift bipedal running In the
erect position. This modification of the foot Is
accompanied by long. strong straight legs, a back
followed above the loins and head poised on
vertical neck In the apes the head Is not poised
In that way, the back is not followed the legs
are short, weak, and bent at the knees and the
foot Instead OF being formed for running, is OF
the climbing type, the great toe being opposable
to the others and freely movable.
but there are other differences present In the
skull and teeth. In existing men the bralncase
Is capacious and highly arched from the brows
backwards the ridges over the brows are absent
or comparatively small che face Is small the
jaws protrude but little or not at all and the chin
projects: the palate Is short. wide, curved and
followed above. the teeth are oil In contact and
the CANNES are short, that the law Is capabie
OF moving from side to side, like a cows during
mastication. In the apes. on the other hand the
braincase Is comparatively small aud but little
arched from the brows backwards the brow.
ridges are massive. the jaws are large and pro-
jecting. and the chin recedes; the palate Is long
nt..hs l.ln.
nine teeth are long. and the jaws are incapable
OF moving sideways. mastication being effected
by upward movement of the lower Jaw There
Is. however. one point connected with those dr.
ferences which wish 10 impress upon YOU Ex
listing races differ from each other considerably in
the size aud shape of the braincase, the deyelop
ment of the brow-rdges. the projection of the
jaws the size Of the teeth. and the shane of tho
palate but so far AS am aware, they do NOT DIFF
fer appreciably. II at ALL In the structure OF tho
spine, of the legs and OF the feet the parts sub
servient to exclusively bipedai progression In the
upright attitude.
"Now the so-called missing link shouId he n,
animal so partaking Of the characters OF the ape
and man. so intermediate between the two that
he could not be definitely assigned to either Ie,
us now see 10 that claim can be made for any OF
the extinct forms Of man hitherto recorded
"A great many fossil men have been discovered
who do not differ In any essential respects firm,
men of the present day. These show that our
species is NJ great antiquity; and there Is evil
dence that he Inhabited Europe in mid. pleistn.
Gene times, and overapped both In time and dis
tribution. and no doubt extermInatcd another sna.
Giles called Neanderthal Man from the locali,v
where his first remains were discovered IN Iss-
Since that year other skeletons have hean nm
earthed In Gibraltar Croatia. and elsewhere, ana
we have tolerably good idea what these ,,a
were like. Professor Huxley In 1880 wr,,a -,
them: They were short Of stature but nou.r
fully built with strong. curouSy curved thi,h
bones the lower end Of which are so fashioned
that they must have walked with bend at the
knees Their long, depressed skulls had very s,r,n
brow-ridges: their lower jaws OF brutal denth ana
solldty sloped away from the teeth downwnr1s
and backwards To this may add that there
Is very little doubt that this man walked with n