| Show eking Peking Man Furnishes F 34 Best Link in Human y j Chain Andrews Says o tb ro a wY l Found Skull 1 Gives Clue to Ancient Best c l I Man l He Thinks I rata rait Editors Editor's Noto Notts' When scion scion- tbt h lists recently unearthed a complete com- com t kull skull from a sandstone p pit t t thirty hirty miles mites from China they furnished the world with nth tho mast important human link so 10 o far discovered Dr Roy Ch Chapman Andrews believes A Andrews recently placed the 11 je e of the skull at lit year ears ir The find confirms him i ht I says lays now In m the belief that t 7 the i origin of man may be traced fr I same me day to central Asia l ably ily Mongolia where Andrews Andrewsin tbt in tt directed an n expedition of Museum of Natt Nat- Nat the he 0 American nJ al I t History riCo Gt In the following article AnO An- An t O relates th the tho significance et 0 of ef the skull kull belonging to the thet or Peking man t tail t l I ld By DR ROY CHAPMAN r te eci ANDREWS Written for the United Press I r a Tan Jan HO jibe rho Tho Ticking Peking g g ji n is without question tho most known link in the tho whole I chain of or human ancestry lit h hf discoverers arc to bo be W ltd fed The layman Jayman can hardly wax en- en about that shell of or brown ne It does docs not s seem cm so o differt differ differ- t to untrained eyes I CS from an any tt cr skull But it is difficult for scientist to discuss it without 1 Ing int superlatives Science has hast w t for the first time lime a a. very r t ve e e human cranium which Is com com- lete Ide one In which the bones arc are their original petitions unshed unshed un- un shed d not wen oven distorted It ma may bo be the most moot ancient t type pc is tho the first of or which tho the age and antI position arc are uly known It Is the tho only ono one was T studied from the moment f t its dl discovery cover and antI removed by observers UCH GUESSWORK Ih There re hi has been much guesswork bout all the other vel very primitive c Of Ot tho the Java ape apo man for fornance stance nance we C have havo only the skull ip p. p Of the tho own mm man consid- consid more moro oC ot tho the skull kull but all of or oft t badly broken Ji Different scientists lye live re restored t these fp specimens ac- ac ordin to their own ideas ideas- In every o G bitter bUhr controversies have 0 risen rb n. n Ono One man said raid the th brain was no so much Another he hp was oi all wrong The on th the subject is enor enor- ous In a a. short hort time Dr Dad Davidson on lack Canadian scientist will tell te-H tells tellis s is exactly what was wag tho brain ca ca- ca Ity of ot the tho Peking man lie He will Lake Hike a a. e cast of or the Interior of ot the cull kull From f studying this perfect production o of the brain he lie will now just how tar far on tho the road to uman Intelligence the Peking man ad d pone gone one The swelling In the promises 5 re- re Already Alread the Peking man had hadn n jun un to think IVILL ILL SETTLE DISPUTES Not only will this discovery el fur- fur ish much new information 11 t to toh toh h he h progress of human evolution e iut Jt it will settle many disputed i For instance the tion Uon of or the apelike jaw of ot tho the PUt Pill own olm man nian with the tho sl skull ull fragments te re rise to a scientific controversy hit hat ra raped raged cd for years car It Is rather Ti to find that tha 1 the he 1 Peking in tn had bad had a similar jaw U it tends to confirm several eral the- the rles which arc aro important Durns Dur- Dur ns the last Jast decade there thero has been strong trong tendency to push mans man's farther and d farther back to ito the tho remote past Some ats ts now b believe lIe c that the tho human tm em m is III rooted In tho earl early t part of or oftie tie e age of or mammals The rhe Peking an hasp ol In th the tho yen very beginning of or orlee he i ice lee age ge Already at that rc- rc r ote period he lio had advanced far farlon lon long r the road of or human develop ment ent nt That means that the an- an stock tok from which ho ad dart started cd Jon long ago aso certainly In InQ ine Inho ho Q e t early pliocene n possibly In the Eocene locene No geologist olo l t likes to as- as sign n a definite term of years to these remote periods Estimates f of t time are arc too uncertain One meth meth- method o od which has r recently found wide acceptance would put the tho b beginning of ot tho the miocene period at years ars ago Another th theory ory which the Peking man tends to support Is tho the ual ua Asian origin of ot the human fam fam- lm- lm ily lly The Peking Pekin man Is la a t ion ong on way say from lom being the missing link Jink If one must use that un unsatisfactory term tern He lie i is a n t missing issing link Ink but th the r re remote remote re- re mote progenitors of or man will bo be found in much older strata The exact place Is uncertain but hut I J am convinced d that tha t it will bo be somewhere on the Asiatic plateau Dr Black and Dr Grabau A A. A AY Yo Grabau formerly of or Columbia university now in b believe that Chinese Turkestan is the th most probable spot I favor Mongolia It Is only by exploration that the question can enn be ba settled I for on ono one confidently expect that continued explorations of or tho the Chou deposit will reveal re skeletal parts There Thera is 15 Cf C every reason for Tho Tile specimens p from irom the cave are FO so o b beautifully preserved that it will b bp be strange if H other bones bone arc not brought to Ii light ht |
