Show icy id MA MAN l T Once Really y ve ve Three EYES 1 ti 1 w Re file Believed to Ha Have c the Rudiments r v of a Third Eye i A D r man maa once have t three eyes eyes eyes' Is the theland Ip ID D pincal gland land buried burled deep in the skull acta act act- gills a n remnant of an ancestral eye as ns asit considered by ultra ultra Darwinians Darwinians as good j it vas ns the theory of the evolution on of man by bySted proof Sted roof of f rii selection 5 These are two questions the Ilbra scientists seeking king to are arc S Only nr very recently has ms the pineal gland been tood Prof Arthur Keith an nn English in in- in that to this gland must be as as- tor r says sas important place in in the tho machinery M an Sh eh controls the growth L Of the body The reasoning of scientists to explain man mans man's a takes this form eye I Some very cry primitive ancestor of our race an semi semi aquatic aquatic life amid sylvian 1 c P hibian lived a Under these condi con con- Jec ses S and swamps s di dil ons tin fin eye on the top of it its head was con con- necessary to spot the tit-bits tit floating bore it or to see ee out of the mud hence the he eal eye But long ages age afterward its human Ascendants i left eft the morass and md began tilt Hm till the earth and look for diamonds so of coat Olm the need for an e eye c on the top of their it t leads heads did cid id not exist l Con Consequently it shrank from disuse into a aJ J rudimentary ry fragment ry an interesting interesting inter inter- 1 esting relic of or mans man's primeval past like his troublesome vermiform f form appendix third eyelid and andos os coccyx x xA or tail A All AU this kind of reasoning received received re re- a surprising ant amount aunt of oe credence among speculative ape scientists scientists i r generally r iqS more particularly when a windfall came carne their r f way in th the person of the shown in one of the accompanying illustrations a most singular little reptile some two feet long discovered on some islands off New Zealand and called by the Maoris the It was found that it had what was considered a pineal eye ere be beneath a hole in the top of its skull and though it was only rudimentary like mans man's yet et here was evidence for the latter's letters ancestry It was wa not held that man sprang from an ancient ancient an an- dent but from something hing far worse the that existed long ages ago Its fossilized skeleton alone remains but It possesses the identical hole in the top of its head for tha pineal I eye N u NN N NN H IN INN N PINEAL GLAND The Position and Appearance Appearance Ap Ap- Ap of the Pineal Pineal I and Pituitary Glands as Shown by a Section s Through th the Centre of the Human uman Head At Atthe Atthe the Right Is Shown the Pineal Gland Enlarged Twice 4 The chain of evidence appeared complete This creature stood at the parting of the ways in the genealogical tree of descent man being at the end encl of one branch and at the end of |