THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1950.
Have we found at last
The Missing Link
BETWEEN MAN AND THE APE?
OR nearly 100 year
men
have been dis- cussing Darwin's iden
that our human кресіек
evolved
from
apes.
the
There wa no de- finite evidence of this in his dlay, but the imagina- tion of people was intrigued by the possibi- lity that day.
Kome
might be found what
The
by Professor F. E. ZEUNER, D.Sc.,
Australo. pithecus akull
dincovered by
Profesor Dart in
South Africa.
Ph.D.. F.G.8., F.2.8.
A lot of roughly male stone tools were found nho.
The humata skull fragments were stalled by Professor Val- lots, of Paris.
A skull of Sinan thropus or Peking Man studied by Protenor Welden, rrich.
They lacked the heavy brow ridges of Neander- tha Man, though they were defl nitely older
than the latter.
C. V. R. Thompson
on tour
Millionaires in cowboy dungarees
OZONA, (Texus). AMB chops here are up
have taken him for a form hand.
Except when their wives drag them is a dance or to a perform-
to around 8s. ft. a lb. and a good joint costs from £2 to £3. The trouble nuce of the opera 200 miles away in Dallas, the men wear the cow- is that men don't want to boy's uniform of dungarees, a
This con-be shepherds any more. So rough shirt, a dust-caked ten- firmed a sus they are producing fewer gallon hat and stirrup-rubbed piclon (based
un the earlier sheep today for 150 million hd-heel boots. discovery Americans than they did of Swans when there were
combe
Man 000,
from Kent)
50,000,-
that ilomo But there are plenty of them told me they decided that sapiens can shepherds
not have
derthal
In the first flush of success they named the street where they "Silk bit their mansious
But one of Stocking Street." mostly Mexi- was "putting on the dog." Today descended cans and Negroes-in Wes. the street is known as Broadway. from Nean-tern Texas. Thus they still
Man raise plenty of sheep there, THE WOMEN in Ozona age even more remarkable. They hove This, then, is the new pic- It is difficult to say how the Link." Tauns, but few would be-
the national much money to spend that in And
San Angelo, the nearest shopping | creator neither ape nor lieve him when he said that bones came to be in the caves. turet
Farly Man pogubly of the scramble for chops and legs centre. the stores put aside all the be the animal from which it. The man-pes may five carried
Java Man type, developed along of lamb has produced in most expensive items until they n in something in
animal in for food-or Vier-
the tween which might prove came was in some respects
two divergent lineages in may have fourges of the Ice-ABC's Our led Ozona the strangest town I have had their pick, the Transition and thus in intermediate between ape sa, or the bone.
ben was hed in.
to heavy-browed Neand: rthal have ever seen. diate the path of human and man.
Mon, and the other had becume evolution.
much lik: Hemo zajeni atrendy about 250,000 years ago.
was called
**
Missing
Lizaz
24-
Then, in 1036. and in
D: Rustom, Parton, Found 1 m-ar
VIZIUMEN
of
in
Following! a
Itriti 1930 covered
1947 invendugated expeditions in the Mise ne beds in the Gulf or Kaviconto, Lake Victoria,
Clur
From time to mains of fossil nun were Bevine al Townbatues her discovered, and
whenever Jahaumeshunt Nome a they exhibited
fit finds were kultu parently ape-like charactor
mil. eurials human-looking
til such as heavy brow ridgera jawa and Teeth, but nut
chin quite recently, when limb bones years absence of a They were hailed as "ine were ducovered was it comm- that Profes, nor Dail had been ing links."
right from the beginning.
fr 1
But to the honest invest!------ gator they AVCPO THE more
primitive than just
man ou still far removed from the apes.
Java Man
FTER
Analysis
Thee bede are some 23,090.009
the old, and in the ra found more than 100 one of foll apes of a peculiar type.
The name Procompul bag beta uven La soine of them. In spite of the rent at thee apes 1. Some
Wen
THE war
Profe, my respect, than the modern apro Le Gro. Clark, of Oxford University, investigated the linds and the Las now appliedd a pro- foul and revealing analyons of the curious creatur.
Their geodesical auertit re- important of man, to be determined, but it is
Para a these finds were Nean- probably more tertha Man from the year.
THE MOST
Rhineland and France, an
the more primitive Java
Man, a type which liver!
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Jave and China.
a
On them was built up hypothefieni suncestral line Macalled of Modern Homo sapiens by the scion Tists.
It had been clear for long time that he did
millio
The man-ape
was some- smaller
Man than what futay. His brain was less half the size of Mar's,
his Jays were projecting and massive and his cheek teeth
very large.
In the respects, he was not until a chumpsazer, but thera are farge number of character- ilie.tranely renuuseent Mon, and which take tim #mk."
11011
spring from any of the liv- ing apes such as the gorilla,
gri chimpanzer, orang, or
Ire- million
For instaner, the "Sinian shelf," a bone plate on the Instile of the chin, which our living apes possess, is absent in these Mioerne apes as it i in Man.
Alas they do not have the app tite thick skull or the heavy brow ridges.
And, quite
revrnily,
In Ozona there are 1-12 heres of land. And every
one
When the het glaciation began family in town except about 100,000 years ago Neat-} is headed by a dollar mi- derthal Man was in possession of lionaire. Kanop
For the afternoon bunfights dress the millionmes' wives timelves up in clothes and jewellery that would be just ight for the most fashionable fest night of the West End
reason.
But Mrs Jelm Henderson still What made me stop at There is Robi evidence that
keeps her hand in dainst odd jobs Homo sapkas invaded Europe: Ozona as I came pun it un on the manch, And Mrs. Max apparently from the East, about
which led to
(a partial 50,000 years ago. the exterminat ab,orptions of Newna, rihal Man
In India
Trans
oil 10 an
boom my way
the trees. 11) town, were
the these parts they say only way to get shade is to jerawl under your wagon.
Yet Millionaires' Town-
in NHESE ARE a few of the the biggest little town Jearned the have **
work, as it calls about our ance,dors in the de-
self-is as shady as a Ken- · cet just endet.
tish village.
Some of the ches, we already hal, hat it is too often forgoltere that Anding the specimen is use- le unless it i, properly juveut gated. It is the later invistira tion and deduction that marks the advance of science.
man-ajes
were
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FOUND that those trees, pride. Schneeman still goes to work in and joy of the citizens, cost the sheep peas at lambing time. them many
much dollars and effort.
Before they planted them they had to blast holes in the rock, Every sprint they have to haul Sing ti limb found some South Africans have in new zait to keep the trees alive, how proudly claimed that their coun-Ard every day they have tu
water them. Jones were found which that Procul and his relations try is the cradle of Mankind. were agile, gound-living apes who could ru well but were not well equipped for re-life.
Cave find
I appears, thepifore, that these apes and they were real. There a 15 ach features
en primitive apes are tome. the rot fron alors in the skull and treth, L
how related to which Man's ancestors spratig Gros Clark al: etablished the auto "hurian" character of the big bone, ankle be, and the though this was some 25,000,000 arm bom
On the ground
W
It was thought that some unknown, extinet speirs of ape changed into Java Man at the beginning of the Pleistorene Period or
USTRALOPITHECUS Age (perhaps a
101 an ap eng mustly years ago), then Java Man the tre, and adapted to elink. He lived mainly on the into Neanderthal Man
per Hos
grottal, est like Man, and his million haps a quarter of a years ago, and Neanderthal Man intu
Modern Man
The proof of this is the great- (Homo sapiens)
in or knoW- about step forward
ledge of human origin Here 100,000 years ago.
was a erature, though still like at cp in HELEN WONS, who was already walang like a m
Three groups
N THE last ten
years
posture wap, crvel
Murc«sker, ttuus" is an indica- Tim that he may have thed his brums in the acquisition of food
three important group more than any ap ever tid.
of discoveries have thrown
fresh light on our ancestry, Professor Dart found at
and have compelled us to modify our views.
Taungs a number of irac- tured skulls of baboo14.
They were depressed fractures, pussibly produced by blows af
One, made in France, confirmed a suspicion that stones or clubs, indicating that Modern Man didl not this pre-human being may have descend from Neanderthul een already a hunter who had equipped himself with some kind
Man.
The second, in East Africa; tells us what the ape-like ancestors of may have been like.
The
man
third. most im-
of simple weapon.
"Telanthropus'
COME OF the bones found in:
South Africa are 1 little portant of all, was made in different from the others.
South Africa. It produced.'
The complete significance of .n creature which, once its dis variability has not yet been geological age has been established. It may be an indi- established in detail, may cation of different stages of eva~ perhaps justly claim the lution or of great variability of title of "Missing Link." Its the species, or of the presence of
several closely related species. name is Australopithecus.
'Intermediate'
WHAT, THEN, do these
finds teach us?
Dr Broom, for instance, recent- ly found a sicull which he says represents another type of man- ape and which he calls "Telan- thropus."
There finds have mostly been made in quarries where work-
The first discovery of the men are blasting limestone. South African man-ape
The bones Aro usually in (Australopithecus) did not anelent cave deposits in the receive proper recognition. limestone.
Back in 1925 Professor Other animal bones are often Dart found ▲ skull at found with them.
year, go!
MB Henri-Martin In 1947, daughter of a fours French pre-te torian, det into the hard He stone floor of a care in the Charente
But in the last century prople Thought Europe was the cradle because only - Neanderthal Man was then known. And on the eve of the 20th century they thought it was Asia because of the dia-
very of Java Man.
Where the real cradle is will only be established after a lot more systemaile search and investigation in, many parts of the world.
instam,
The citizens of Ozuna are Scottish descent. mostly of
names--the Typical family Hendersons, the Kinenids, the Montgomerys. the Davidsons, the Mantes, the Plereer, an the Betts.
Mont-
And young Mrs Ted gomery is a champion rodeo rider and the world's champion milker of wild cows,
EV
VERY FAMILY but one in Ozona is, as I said, headed by a millionaire. The one which In' is the family headed by a widow, Mrs. Madge Bailey.
And she runs the town's only industry.
To nuke both ends meet Mrs Bailey began a few years ago to evening cut up the discarded
of her friends dresses of some and fashion them into women's Kippets. First she sold them in
Then Ozona,
shop in Sau Angelo sent Britain.
orders. hee some Then hope, further afield found out about them.
Those who do not live to Ozona enll them a bunch of snobs. They resent their fine homes, all air- conditioned against the insuffer- able unamer heat, uit thickly fear peted, all furnished with an-
t:que, mely These artsiders say a true Texan I should live of beans and soW-
belly intend of cavinr
may TUT
WHAT
from
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I believe flaws will one day 'b. 1melia. The Siwalik made in formatimus m the foothills of the Himalayas. for yield nun-apes somewhat like | 15 about the people uf-milliun- ares Town, for all their obvious atisfaction with their way of life, was their lack of airs. Only satts--the judge and the banker. two men in town
those in Smith Africa,
The work will go un. Some She was awarded by finding rements of human skulls, to day, I believe we shall have question of time and nether with bona of types of man's family tree revealed. It is ammel which proved that the to chine art been tid, of the paint work. period between the penultimate Work and dent plans of the tri-Age,
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I ran into Joe Davidson, the richest of them all, and if I had not known otherwise I would
·Ever time. Charlie Hill
ND TODAY Mrs Balley bas a factory with 17 employees turning out the slippers for a nation-wide market. She te no- where near becoming a million- airess, but she is doing all right.
Millionaires' Town is such a nice town that I shall not get so angry next time I have to pay Us. Gd. a lb, for Inmb chops.
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