Evening star., 1932-03-10
BY REX COLLIER.

| DR.. C. Francis Jenkins, noted scien-
tist an dtelevision inventor, believes he
knows why evolutions missing link
has never been found.
| "It never existed" he declared in an
interesting interview, in which he went
on record as a caustic critic of the
I Darwinian theory of life.
DR.. Jenkins, known the world over for
his pioneering work on motion pictures
and on visual telegraphy and broad
casting and recipient of numerous hon.
ors for his researches, revealed himself
for the first time in the role of stu
dent of evolution.
While he does not arbitrarily discard
the theory of gradual development of
the species, he objects to the single
cell theory of evolution, because he is
convinced that man is not an evolution
ary animal product.
Disputes Explanation.
I'VE do not know how or whence life
came upon this EARTH" the veteran in
all life began with a single cell in the
ooze of pre-glacial sea does not seem
sufficient explanation of observed phe-
nomena
IF all the species came from the
same cell, he argued, it should be easy
to propagate a new special by crosses
between any two of them.
Such attempts invariably have re-
suited in failure" he said THE new
line ends with the new offspring. The
product always is sterile. For example,
the mule, the carideer, the catelo, the
zebrule and the tigon are variants in
species, but not new Species
If all life came from a single CELL"
he continued, there remains the I'M
answered mystery of where the cell
came from and what caused it to sepa-
rate into millions of different species,
extinct and living, from microbe to
mastodon"
DR.. jenkins contended that to assume
the evolution of the red rose, the honey
bee, the eel and the giraffe on the
single-cen hypothesis strains creoulity,
no matter how many millions of years
are assigned to evolution. All life. he
reminded, reproduces its species, lives
its allotted span and dies. whether
it be the minute cell of typhoid fever or
the African elephant.
To sustain the single-cell theory, he
asserted it is necessary also to intro
duce migrations to populate the earth.
Except for man, however, there has
been little migration of living things,
he pointed out.
Explained by Plurality.
"It is far more logical and biological"
the inventor said, "if we assume mil
lions of life cells, each starting and
developing its particular species of
plant, fish, reptile, bird and beast, each
with its own cell beginning and not
necessarily simultaneous. A separate
habitat for each in widely separated
locations is not, then, illogical, and
proof of worldwide migration Is not
needed.
"A plurality of widely scattered cells
also would explain the difference in the
staple grain food of the two hemispheres,
namely, why wheat should be the ma
tive grain of the Eastern Hemisphere
and maize the native grain of the
Western Hemisphere
IF primitive man had migrated to
the Western Hemisphere from the
wheat-growing Eastern Hemisphere, he
would have brought his grain seed
with him. But we find maize the staple
grain in the Western Hemisphere"
Regardless of whether life had
single or multiple cell beginning, DR..
Jenkins stated, one does not study man
long before it is evident that he is not
an evolutionary animal product"
Man sprang from distinct sperm
He is not descendant of a monkey, in
spite of a similarity of skeletal FORM"
he told his interviewer with consider
able emphasis.
Certainly scientists are not in agree
ment on this evolutionary theory.
Among eminent scientists there are
those who deny that man was ever
arboreal or that he ever walked other
wise than upright. The Darwinian
theory, accepted SO long, is waning in
the minds Of many"
An occasional embryonic tail, 1t was
declared, does not prove man a de-
scendant of monkey any more than
skeletal resemblance does.
Ridiculous Theory.
DR.. jenkins ridiculed the contention
Of some students that mans attain
ments are made possible by evolution
from an animal He believes there is
no animal from which spiritual being
like man could have come by evolution
He said he prefers to study man as
living being in considering his relation
to other mammals, rather than limit his