Show AS SCIENCE VIEWS ADVANCE OF MAN erect position put him MM above beasts from a single fossil stull discovered in the desert wilds of cantril australia sir colln colin Ma mackenzie chenzie deduces the fact or at least th tha 3 con cluston that I 1 the erect posture dom injates mans intellectual system and low that ila all intellectual dellop went has a muscular basis I 1 at first ganco glance it Is a little difficult to perceive how a skull which Is not a whole skull but only a portion of one and arid which Is sup supposed poRed to be and probably lo 10 1 a relic of a primitive kind of human luman ban bing can cin teach the t all thit th it it it t tales 1 a good equip trent of imagination to under it it IN e must first imagine the creal crea re from which man Is descend cd ed golin on all fours he ile had not bet assumed the erect position lie ile was tien like any other boast beast of the aungie any bl bigger er beast might tread him to death under its feet Il mastery astery was a matter of size but one day le be beast groveling oTelina gr in the tall grass gra through some borne accident or freak or the help of a stump or a rock gets upon his hind legs in atiat position lie sees above the griss he ile Is en idled to observe the approach of the possible mastodon who mil grind him film to death and to fildi from him IN ith his incident this tills groveling eret lures relative advance be begins from that time on he and his gle toward the maintenance of an tin erect position they employ craft they learn a superior mode of ghyst cal prore rec slon sion and thereby hey they at tain a superiority over other crea tures A step arely resulting from this point la Is the liberation of 0 the brei lures tures forelegs from the function of 0 ston slon nod their bradu gradually in creased usefulness in providing c easier iier means of subsistence 11 ith practice now the cre creatures iturea front paws become lands by development one of the paw projections which once were mere claws becomes a thumb which by repe repeated cited use becomes opposed to the other claws now fingers so o th t the brei ture can seize and hold any article now the animal who Is on the road to become a m man min in has achieved a point of superiority to tl tie e ape all of whose I 1 fingers arc are la in a row who docs floes not possess tic tie opposed thumb counting by thousands of centuries the new I 1 man now gets beyond the ape by ic leips ipg an annl bounds IN without the opposed liy the ni in would hivo livo h ivo remained in the half hilt erected or only occasionally created position of the ape together the erect posture and the opposed thumb made man mian the master of his own evolution of course at the sta stage a noted the mind I 1 is yet to come but it Is now an inevitable thing thin for the im improve proe mint achieved males the nemy developed species gregariou gre garlou superior individuals learn earn to dominate their fellows communication becomes necess necessity iry language Is 1 dei developed eloped from grunts and squeaks squeak society Is organized troughs Thou gha are expressed thus from the bones and muscles of the legs from the bones and muscles of the hands an I 1 intellectual development I 1 has been e olvid the groat great tiling thing was to tet started and the start was the erect posture I 1 quod erat demons says the professor but of course all this Is not a demonstration it Is only a speculation sir colln colin alace mackenzie onzie s notion about the dependence of in tel development on muscle Is pure Lamarc Is lam was a french naturalist who was born in 1744 and died in IS he ile was the forerunner of darwin who accepted his doctrine of I 1 characters 11 hat but taught Is centered con in his account of the manner in which the gioffe acquired his ions iong neck an ordinary antelope who blied in a south african region where from increasing arid ty food for the antelope on the earths surface dl appeared could graze only at the tops of trees such individual hoists as ind irid the longest necks could reach food and survive thoe thore andl survived when their shorter necked fellows perished it was they who ulio propagated their species which becire increasingly long necked the primitive man getting on his feet in the tall grias Is practically doing 4 the same thin thing that Lamarc lamarcus La marcks ls ginste did sir conlin cs deductions from the discovery of the llull in the australian desert demonstrate that I 1 amarco Is coming to his iiii own in the field of evolutionary science they demonstrate nothing albe that Is as apt tir |