The Washington times., 1924-01-01
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EVOLUTION
ASFACT
Discovery Of Missing Link Mat
ter of Short Time
They Believe.
BY HARRY v. MARTTN.
Cosmopolitan News service.


CINCINNATI, Jan. 1.-The one
outstanding thing on which dsls-
gates to the convention q ths
American Association for the Adj
vancement Of Science, In session.
today, seem to agree, il that the
evolution of man is a fact and not
a theory, William Jennings Bryan
and others to the contrary not
withstanding. Furthermore. &C.
c0rding to DIR. Fl. L. FairchH0."
emeritus professor of geology 9t
the University OF Rochester, science
is on the eve Of actually finding
the missing link between man and
the lower animals.
1.-THE very narrow gap between
the higher living primates ana the
genus homo may be closed almost
any day by new discoveries" DR..
Fairchfld declared.
/ World Yet UNEMPLOYED.
Already We have, a great number
Of suggestive semi-humau frag-
ments. 1t should be realized thar
only small part OF the world has
been carefully examined, and q
large part OF the Orient, the pr0A
able field Of human development.
not at all. American and Western
Europe have been explored, but the
vast areas Of Asia and Africa are
the hopeful fields. The missing
link may not long be missing"
If not the actual ancestor, Wa
rious speakers asserted, the monkey
lis at least a distant cousin to prtmi-
tive man. And as the monkeys
habitat is in Asia and Africa, Il II
only natural to suppose that the
missing link also originated there.
Without mentioning Bryan's name
DIR. Fairchild censured all foes Of
evolution.
DIR. Ales Hrdlicka, of Washington.
D. c., another speaker, declared
there was little likelihood Of finding
on the American continent the re-
mains of man older than ten thou
sand years.
Indians from Asia.
No skeleton or implement differ
ent from those Of Indians has been
found in America, he said. He
asserted that the American Indian
was an immigrant and because OF
mental and facial characteristics,
Judged he came from Northeastern
Asia.
Man Of the future, limited Or.
&c. M. Child, of the University Of
Chicago, during symposium ON
"Morphogenesis," the study OF the
formation Of organism, may be
physically perfect, in striking con-
trast to the supposed missing link.
DIR. Child is now engaged in re-
search work to determine the ma
ture of the force that governs the
formation Of animal organisms into
symmetrical bodies, with proper
parts, such as head, arms, legs, etc.
Through the application of iliumi-
nation, electric current, oxygen.
chemicals and other agencies, he
announced, he has been able to dis
turb the normal growth OF organ
iSmS and believes he win discover
what makes organism go wrong In
its formation
Experimenting with sea urChin9,
tadpoles and planaria and other or
ganisms, he said he has produced
deformities, and then found O. me-
thod Of reversing the process and
bringing the organism back TO nor
NAL size and shape.
This discovery has given him ba-
sis for the hope that it will be pos
sible to eliminate deformities in
newly born children.
DIR. Child Produces Freak.
DR.. Child accidentally produced q
freak. By applying certain chent-
Gals to a planaria or minute organ
ism, he elongated it, so that both OF
it's eyes converged and became as
one. By reversing the action, in
stead of the one eye developing into
the normal pair of eyes, it remained
stable and two new eyes formed,
making the planaria a three eyed