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Show f WHY "WE - BEHAVE 1 LIKE HUMAN BEINGS j By GEORGE DORSEY, Ph. D IX. D. ' B. ........ . . . . . . . . . . . .fl How and Why Bodies Fossilize UNfcKgS weH rmWeH,''fr''fn rn'lif less Peru or Egypt, or In drf caves, or the cold storage of.Aretr Ice, or in oil, wax. or nmher, the bo soon yields to the bactcrin of decor or to the teeth of wolves and hyennj For bone or other tissue to be replaced by mineral whereby It petrifies r. or "fossilizes. many conditions must -tie rlghL The wiser the hnluiul. the'iefe likelihood of Its being caught In quiet-. sand3 or engulfed by the gravel and, silt of floods. Primitive inaoi-wnstW little enamored ns we 'are of being, bnrled alive. '".' ' ; ' ", ' v Fossil remains of the famou Cro Magnon man have.; been . .found In Wales, and especially In France." Possb' bly earth never saw finer built human, .beings. His brain ,iwas U) per ,,-fenj larger than ours , hlsstature taUerjljnf any living race by two Incheaile :VP. elean-lhnbed, lithe, nnd swift. He bad a good chin, thick and strong Jaws. Ills head was ' long, his fare broad. He buried his dead. He was an artist and on artisan. Lie liver abouf STi.OOO years ago. Did he become an ordinary European, or did he disappear? disap-pear? No one knows. Beyond Cro-Magnon, our forebears rather run to brutish casts. Orlmaldl man was of the Neyrold type. Nean derthal man had a huge bend, chipped flint, and burled his dead, lie Is set down nt WI.OOO U. G. and left na known heirs. Lie Is the Hrst known cave-man The Jaw of Heidelberg mnn fits a gorilla, but the teeth are ours. He Is possibly 4(MJ.U()0 years old. Plltdo'wn' man Is possibly a hundred thousand years der.. Some think he was mii ape. Some say be was the Urst Englishman. Eng-lishman. We have reached a point n time where no one knows who's who. The champion fossil is Pithecanthropus Pithecan-thropus erectus (ape-man erect), dls-. covered by Dubois In Java In 1801. lie Is certainly a half million years old;, some say a million. He Is more pithecoid pithe-coid than any known human being, more anthropoid than any known ape. Lie was as erect and almost as tall as the average European. He had definite! left the "Well-ventilated arboreal ar-boreal tenements." He was a lowbrowed low-browed moron and may be represented represent-ed in the living flesh. But whether be was of the direct line that led to man. or only of a line t lint ended with, himself,' Is not yet definitely 'known. It Is enormously signllicnnf that, after, a debate lasting more than a quarter, of a century, the biologists of tlie" world 'cannot decide whether Pit lie; canthropus erect us belongs to the Hi sr or the second of the earth's First Families. That makes him a pretty1 good link that Is no longer missing. To Import monkeys for their ses, glands is ghastly business, per Imps the lowest that has engaged the cupidity cupid-ity and lust of man. but to shoot down simians as we do mad dogs or boys iq uniform is a crime. The four Anthrof pold apes are our next-of kln-livlngj they should be respected as cousins and ' not exterminated as vermin or. Indians.' T ;.. ' Man was never a gorilla, a chimpanzee, chimpan-zee, an orang, or u gibbon. No hlol? oglst ever made such a claim Whettv? er these apes could '-nve developed. Into human beings' Is n different nlory. Tl ey have the makings ull the parts. If we knew how heredity works nnd could control vnrlutlon. we might, breed from an ape a being tluit could dig a ditch, play the piano, talk Enc-lls:i, Enc-lls:i, nnd sing the "Messiah." We can teach them to smoke cigarettes, chew tobacco, drink beer, wear clothes, nnd eat with a knife and fork. We do not yet know the limit of their capacity to learn human ways. .1 Why do zoologists put these four apes so close behind us that we carl feel their breath and they can catch our diseases? Because, they are Anthropoid. An-thropoid. Nothing hus yet 6urpasd them In the race to become human. Their anntomy, embryology, histology, morphology, paleontology, physiology, nnd psychology entitle them to second place In the Ancient and Honorable1 Order of Firsts. They vary In their man-likeness; nd one Is In all ways closest to man. The orang looks like an Irlshinaii j tli' gorilla Is built like Jack1 peinjisey'j the. chimpanzee Is the most angelic'! the delicate gibbon has a!l lady-like' skull -d an upright enrriage. The first three the Great Apes are the ex-" tremes of variation from a generalized ancestor. T gibbon varies least, and to that extent Is nenrest the tree man climbed down when he decided to stand up and talk. Except In teeth, the young female gorilla is the most human. Her father fa-ther Is a brute In size and appear ance. Only five feet high, he may weigh over 4(J0 pounds; mostly neck; chest, and arms. If his legs were of human proportions, he would stand' over seven feet high. - The chimpanzee, like the gorilla. IJves in Jungle Africa. Like the gorll-' fn, he has a shuffle-along gait, swinging swing-ing his body between hi?,Jong. cruich-like cruich-like arms-. He has the gorilla's proportions, propor-tions, but never, the . great bulk of chest. And so Is more at home In the trees, where he builds his nest, ns does the orang. The chimpanzee's skull is not unlike the one ape-man erect tried on when turning Into man' and gave np because It had too much Jaw for the teeth required and' not enough brain-box for Ideas. ! by Georgt A. Dorcy, ' |