Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1914 — BACK TO BEGINNING OF MAN [ARTICLE]

BACK TO BEGINNING OF MAN

English Scientist Gives Hie Version of Rapid Process of Evolution In the Early Days. Not the ancestor of modern man, hut a man, nevertheless, is the final judgment of Prof. G. Elliot Smith, F. J*. S., concerning the Piltdown “Dawn man,” whose fossil jaw and teeth, “unmistakably Simian in character," have wen for him the scientific name of Eoanthiopus. He believes that this

specimen must represent a very slightly modified descendant of the common ancestor of modern man and his real progenitor. At the meeting of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical society, on November 18 last. Professor Smith pictured the dawn of human existence: “When man was first evolved the pace of evolution must have been phenomenally rapid, by reason of the rapid weeding out of those who were not fleet of foot and nltnble-witted to meet the dangerous new conditions. Thus,

in view of the fact that no human r» mains or undoubted evidence of human workmanship are known earlier than the Pleistocene, It Is quite possible that amidst thh turmoil incidental to the inauguration of the Pleistocene period a group of anthropoids rose superior to the difficulties of new circumstances and became ‘Dawn men.’ ”