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VERDICT OF RESEARCH. "Was Darwin right when he said that Man, under the action of biological forces which can be observed and measured, has been raised from a place amongst anthropoid, apes to that which he now occupies?
TUESDAY,
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1927.
THE
FUNNEL
BLUE
of tested and assorted already present in that of the-an- fact.
thropoid, had also on paychological The "Descent of Man" was agrounds reached the view that the book of history-the history of differences between the mentality Man, written in a new way, the of Man and the ape were of de- way discovered by Charles Darwin.gree and not of kind. This was Darwin gathered historical docu-confirmed by modern research. ments from the body and be Progress of the Brain. haviour of Man and compared While rapid progress was being them with observations made on made in the knowledge of the the body and behaviour of every leaborate architecture and delicate the least machinery of the human brain, animal which showed
finality was far from being in resemblance to Man.
He studied all that was known sight. There was no explanation In his day of Man's embryological why the brain of man had mado history, and noted resemblances auch great progress while that of "The answer is 'Yes'!" This was Sir Arthur. Keith's and differences in the correspond. This cousin, the gorilla had fallen inherited opinion when he delivered to the ing histories of other animals. He so far behind, why British Association at Leeds. on took into consideration the way ability fell to one family and not of to another, or why in the matter August 31 his keenly-anticipated in which the living tissues presidential address on the Dar-Man reacted to disease, to drugs of cerebral endowment one race to of mankind had fared so much winian theory of Man's decent. and to environment, and had
Sir Arthur Keith summed up the account for the exlatence of di-better than another. subject in the light of modern verse races of mankind. thought and research, and while It was by a logical analysis admitting that it had been found his facts that Darwin reconstruc necessary to. alter details in Dar-ted and wrote a history of Man. win's narrative, declared that the We are now able to fill in many fundamentals of Darwin's outilno pages," Sir Arthur continued, Sir Arthur Keith referred to the of Man's history remialued un-which Darwin had, perforce. to work of Starling and Schafer on
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"necessary to alter details in his
portant way-in which the activi- "On our modest scale of reckon-harrative, but the fundamentals probably the oldest and most im ing," said Sir Arthur, "Man is of Darwin's outline of Man's his-ties of the communities of the given the respectable antiquity of tory remain, unshaken. Nay, 50 body were co-ordinated and re- strong has his position become that gulated was by the postal system about 1,000,000 years."
The President, when replying to
a vote of thanks at the close of his address, made the interesting an nouncement that "Down," with
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When the machinery of develop- ofment and growth had been dis-
covered, the machinery of evolu tion would also be known, for they were the same.
I am convinced that it never can discovered by Starling, wherein be shaken."
found.
he should become
were
Darwin
the missives
hormones
ultra- Man, Sir Arthur said, had been
chemical substances. in traced back at least 20,000 years, microscopic amounts, despatched
timea that its surroundings, the home of and perhaps three
in the circulating blood. Charles Darwin, is to be bought amount. If Darwin was right, as from one community to another traced backwards in "Clearly," said Sir Arthur, in by the Association for the nation. Man was
Sir Arthur Keith, early in his time
more conclusion, the discovery of this address, raised the issue as to how bestial in form, nearer to the ape ancient and intricate system opens far the work of Charles Darwin and this was what had been up fresh vistas to the student of had stood the test of time.
Man's evolution. How But if one regarded Pithecan- After tracing the history of evolution so far as it affected Owen thropus with his small and simple would have welcomed this dis- and Huxley, he referred to
the yet human brain as a fair reprecovery! It would have given him of his unsolved puzzles, including spectacular fight, our Association, sentative of the men of the Plio- rational explanation to so many in which the Bishop of Oxford, cene period, evolution must have that of 'correlated variations."
an unexpectedly! "Nor can I in this connection the representative of Owen and proceeded at orthodoxy, left his scalp in Hux-rapid rate to culminate to-day in forbear to mention the name of ley's hands," and showed how, in the higher races of mankind.
one who presided so ably over the A Mistaken Belief. 1863, by his book on "The Evi-
Sharpey- dences of Man's Place in Nature," Many mistakes had been made affairs of this Association fifteen
ago Sir E. years. the history of he settled for all time that Man's in working out
opened up this field of investiga- rightful position is among the evolution." It was now known that Schafer. He was the pioneer who primates, and that his nearest in remote times the world living kin are the anthropoid apes. peopled with races showing even tigh and has done more than any-
the It was in 1858, the year in which greater diversity than those none to place our knowledge of action of the glands of Owen presided over the British: to-day, and that already the same;
on a precise. basis of experimental observation. Association at Leeds, that Lyell process of displacement was at internal secretion and Hooker had left with the work.
"With such sources. of know- and It was among the welter of ex- Linnean Society what appeared to be an ordinary roll of manuscript, tinct fossil forms which strewed ledge being ever extended
one had others of great importance, such but what in really was a parcel the ancient world that charged with high explosive pre- to trace the zigzag line of Man's as the study of Heredity, which pared by two very innocent-look- descent. Was it to be wondered have been left unmentioned, we and are justified in the hope that Man ing men-Alfred Russell Wallace that one sometimes faltered
will be able in due time not only and Charles Darwin.
followed false clues?
There was the further mistake to write his own history but to Owen examined the contents of the parcel and came to the con-of" the belief that all sections of explain how and why events took
the body had simultaneously the course they did. clusion they were not dangerous; at least, he manifested no sign undergone evolution. of alarm in his Presidential ad- dress,
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Transformation of Outlook.
Was
"In a brief hour I have attempt-
Many blanks existed in the ed to answer a question of mo- geological record, but Sir Arthurmentous importance to all of us. Keith felt justified in making the What is Man's origin? Was Dar- win right when he said that Man, following pronouncement:
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"The answer is Yes! and in reached his present state by the zoological scale than a chimpanzee,
that the date at which human returning this verdict I speak but forces, which had been and were and anthropoid lines of descent as foreman of the jury-a jury ever at work within his body and began to diverge lies near the be- which has been empanelled from ginning of the Miocene period. men who have devoted a lifetime brain.
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