Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1914 — BACK TO BEGINNING OF MAN [ARTICLE]

BACK TO BEGINNING OF MAN

English Scientist Gives His 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. Q. Elliot Smith, F. F. 8., concerning the Piltdown "Dawn man,” whose fossil jaw and teeth, "unmistakably Simian In character,* have won for him the scientific name of Eoanthiopus. He believes that this ' r i

specimen must represent a very slight* ly 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 hot fleet of foot and nimble-witted to meet the dangerous new conditions. Thus,

in view of the fact that no human rb mains or undoubted evidence of human workmanship are known earlier than the Pleistocene, it is quite possible that amidst the 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.’ ”