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PROF. KEITH ON SIMIAN TRACE IN ANCESTRAL MAN

Many prophecies manda by Darwin are coming true.

This was the burden of a discourse by Professor Keith at the Royal Institution oa March 15th.

The "Sage of Down," said the lecturer, foretold the discovery of human ancestors of animian type, but never in his most sanguine moments guessed that England had been the home of at least one of them. Tot Ices than 30 years after- his death, Mr. Charles Dawton bad discovered, below the soil of the Sussex Weald, less than 30 miles from Darwin's home, tho fossil remains of man with the mark of the ape still strong upon him!-

DARWINIAN GARDEN OF EDEN.

In Darwin's day Englishmen took a very modest view of their country; they believed as many of them still do, that English history begins with the landing of Cesar.

No one then dared even to dream that at a very remote period of time England. had been a Darwinian Garden of Eden. The discovery of the Filtdown remains in the Weald of Sussex made our country the home of the earliest known inhabite ant of Europe.

The oldest human skeletons so far dis covered in Egypt or in Babylon, said the lecturer, are things of yesterday com pareil to the Pilldown remains, which have been reposing in the Natural His tory Museum, South Kensington, since

During the war anthropologists had more urgent matters to think about than feesil men, but now that their minds äro. "free again the ancient Englishman was once more coming in for a considerable of attention, particularly by experts living in America, France, and other countries abroad.,

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He might be said to be passing through a very bad time. No question was made of his great antiquity, but our critics alleged that he was composite brings mado up by fitting the fossil lower jaw of an extinct breed of chimpanzees to the fossil skull of a peculiar race of man- kind. In short, we were being told that the Piltdown man was the creation, not of Nature, but of a geologist

DNA PRETTY PROBLEM.

Sussex. it was asserted, was in ancient times inhabited by chimpanzees as well ng by men, and by some curious chancò the lower jaw of the one and, the skull of the other were swept together into the same bed of grava! Our foreign critics were believers in Darwin's theory to a man, but the existence of a human being with an apelike jaw and a manlike brain was too tough a-dish for their scientific stomachs.

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Here, then, was a very over our oldest Englishman, Was he

ery preity be cut in two and made into a man and a chimpanzee or was he indeed just the evolutionary product. Darwin taught na to expect-a man who had not yet shed. at his simian trappings?

The Piltdown man as a compound of human and simian traits does not stand alone, declared the lecturer. AH the earliest fall remains of man show just the same pichald

Time will work of structure.

said Professor Keith, that Darwin's countrymen are in the right about the Piltdown man; he is a true product of Nature's ancient handiwork.

The only land which could claim an ancestor of even a greater degree of anti- quity than our Piltdown man was Java There, some 30 years ago, Professor Dubois discovered the fossil remains of the remarkable being to which he gave the name of Pithecanthropus-ape-man. Professor Dubois believed he bad dia covered a veritable mising linkuch as Darwin's theory postulutes, and this was the opinion generally accepted by experta.NE

NATURE'S, EVOLUTION.

There were critics, however, who, fail ing to perceive the speckled mixtures which nature employed in working out her evolutionary creations, thought that Pithecanthropus was also a composite being. It was enposed by them to be made up by having a human thighhong Eixed to a massive skull which was half human, half anthropoid.

"Humorous situations are thus aris ing." remarked the professor, as we attempt to unravel the fossil ancestors of

man-

Third on the list of countries claiming to have early traces of fossil man came Germany, with the Heidelberg lower

lower jaw,

discovered in 1908,

Here again we had the carious com- pounding of human and simian traits; if the teeth had been found apart from the jaw they would have been said to be human, but had the jaw itself been found without the teeth it would have been.

assigned to an ape-sady With discoveries like these already made, and many more to come, it grows increasingly dificult concluded Pro fessor Keith, for Darwin's critics to say that he was. false prophet.

THE LAZY DIE YOUNG.

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