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Show The Missing Link. In the jungles of southeastern Asia and the islands nearby, which have long been known to science as the cradle of the human race, and which are still inhabited by the very lowest orders of human beings, the pithecanthropus pithecan-thropus lives with the elephant tapir rhlnocerous. lion, hippopotamus gigantic gi-gantic pangolin, hyena and other 'animals, 'ani-mals, remains of which were found round about him. It has oeen computed com-puted that this ancestor lived somewhere some-where about the beginning of our last glacial epoch, some 270,000 years ago In other words, about 17,000 generations genera-tions have been born and have died between him and ourselves. It will assist our understanding of what this relationship really means to know that nearly 250 generations carry us back beyond the dawn of history, 5,000 yean ago. McClure's Magazine. |