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THE BULL-DOG MAN.
FEET, HANDS AND HEAD.
Professor Sir Arthur Keith, continuing his series of lectures on the mechanism of evolution at the Royal institution, drew m striking parallel between the ethols of Nature and those of the fashionable dress- inaker.
In the fashion world, he said, it was a com monplace that special attention should be given
en to shore, gloves, and lasts. Nature had Man's most the same attitude. taken из distinctive features lay in head, fees, and hansis, and the same was true of animals. In pigems, for example, if the beak was short aud snab the feet were small, but if the beak and strong the saine was the case with the feet andel tocm,
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So with bull dogs. They had sub faces, short gs, and small feat. Dachshunds, on the other hand, if the legs and the frut but the face of the ordinary of the hill-dog. dogs. In this respect men were similar, and to recognise, owing to Tonsilde it was quite misdirection of growth, men of the ball dog it wits also possible to recognise type, as men of the dachshund type who had small, stubby hamis and feet, but normal fees. The longolian races were tyd of hall- dogiam, and it was interesting a note that man's distant cousin, the orang, hal its face meubled toty ball lines. While the mechanism of these clages were obscure, it were clear that they were due to lapses on the part of the organs e introlling growth. THE TRAGEDY OF GIANTS,
Men and women were occasionally affected with acromegaly, and owing to the exclusive gryw des.lapunt of the pituitary glam! haute, 1. rt, arul fices ont of all proportion to their stature. The pituity gland acted Just like alcohol a strychnine u swall does tham drag, acted as tonics, but in large dosen as paisons. So with the pituitary glam Lis action was normally beneficent and gave to the race its most valuable characteristics. But censionily its action was erratic, with disastrous results.
THE WHITE SKINNED EUROPEAN. Hunter had shown that one of the latest of human acquisitions had been the fair skin. In black races and white alike there was a period when the skin was free from colour. The fair hair of girlho often became brown in womanhood, and the flaxen hair of babybod usually darkened in child. hool. If the pituitary glands become da Image by lisase, it was not unusumi fer the skin of the sufferer to assume a bronzé colour.
The development of the foot possessed special interest. In the anthropoid at the third month the great too broke away from the others, but in the humar embrge there was no such separation.
THE WORTH OF BRAIN.
Of
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There was no more striking fact concern- ing the evolution of the human bely than the fact that while man possess. ed an unique power of using his larynx and tongue for speech and the muscles of bis face for sil nacies of expression, yet these muscles were just these found in the highest apes, slightly differentiated, with no new element introduce pre-eminence was due solely to the rise and
his brain. overwh
whelming growth Healey Uwer controversy as to whether man's brain was built on the lines of that of the chimpanzee had long ago been an- swered in the adirmative, but it remained be discovered how it was that man's brains to be had so far outstripped those of the spe.
Wh hat was known was that by the sixth month the controlling portions of the brain were already expanded to shadow all primitive parts. These elements consister of billions of microscopic living unit, which hal a marvellous power of ar nanging themselves. The over that young nerve and muscle units posed in this mspect was no ure and no less wonderful than the tacuity of the wandering Wuite blood corpuscles that could be out when a piece of scavenging work seeded their atten-
an to user.
The task in front of those studying the machinery of development was a long one. They had to investigate the habits of the Various units of the embryonic body with the 8826 attention as ulat given to the nature and ways of live animal. It would eventually be known, however, how man cane by the sepecuitar properties of his brain and mind when suna studies had been coin- p.etol.
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