Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 229, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1916 — Manlike Teeth of Ancient Ape. [ARTICLE]

Manlike Teeth of Ancient Ape.

Prof. A. G. Thacher, an eminent British geologist, in an article in Science Progress, mentions the recent discovery of the jaw of an ape which has teeth more closely resembling human teeth than do those of the chimpanzee and ourang-outang, man's nearest relatives in the animal world. In these animals, and in all other living species of the ape, the cuspida are much larger and longer than in man. But in this andent ape, which lived, according to geologists, hundred* of thousands of years ago, the cuspida were small, like those of man. This is regarded as an indication that the development of the cuspid teeth of apes resulted from the necessity for their use in tearing off husks of nuts and for like purposes.