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Show News and views SAYS MONKEYS DESCEND FROM MEN. Professor Haeckel Gives Out a New and Startling; Evolution Theory. That Professor Ernst Haeckel, the distinguished German naturalist, and the world's greatest living advocate of the biological theo y of evolution, has reversed his views of half a century and taken a stand with Professor Rudolf Ru-dolf Virchow in opposition to Darwinism Darwin-ism is the startling announcement , made in Paris. It is stated that during dur-ing his expedition to Java, begun lart.(J , ERNST HAECKEL. year, Professor Haeckel has found striking evidence in support of the theory, advanced for the first time only a few months ago by Virchow, that monkeys are descended from man and , aot man from monkeys. That, in facU monkeys are nothing less than degenerated degen-erated humans. "If professor Haeckel has made any such discovery," says Dr. Edgar Grant Conklin, professor of zoology at the University of Pennsylvania, "or If he has recanted his former multitudinous writings and lecturings sufficiently to-make to-make any such statement it means that one of the most remarkable revolutions revo-lutions in biological science has taken place. "I cannot credit the announcement. Tt seems too extraordinary to believe tht HaeckeU oi-alUjaaiu sJioBM-tslc this stand. I do not know if he has returned from Java, but he went there to study and make further researches Into the pithecanthropus erectus, discovered dis-covered by Dr. Dubais, with a view ta further substantiate the theories he laid down in his 'Phylogeny,' tracing the descent of man." |
