Show THU niSS INQ LINK A french scientist uncovers in java the remains of the missing link that scientists have been ee arching after ever since mr darvin announced hia theory of the descent of man from the lower animals may have been found at last there have recently been in java by a french scientist M dubois a thigh bone part of a skull and two molar teeth that seem without doubt to bo the fragments of one ot these extinct man apes the teeth are as much larger than the teeth of the african as the fl teeth are larger than the europeans the thigh bone ie the size of that bone in the average man of today the skull is about iha average in point of brain capacity between the average european and the highest ape tho femur or thigh bohe ie eaid to be unquestionably human authorities differ to tho character of the skull and teeth shall they be called human or apish the answer can only be definitely given when all the steps in the change from man to ape are in evidence and the dividing line conventionally established professor S E tillman writing in the cosmopolitan saye about the java discoveries the consensus of scientific opinion i bower decides that all the remains must be regarded as human it cannot be definitely determined from this tind alone but it is probable that this so called pithecanthropus erect ape is the lowest human form yet found and is one of the misting links connecting man with earlier and less human forms and that he elands a long way off fron man on the line leading to these forms this statement should not be understood as implying any direct connection between existing men and existing apes for it is pretty certain that while both of may be traced to a common ancestor they have not traveled the bame path from that ancestor to the present and no discovery will ever bridge the chasm between them ex |