Show WHY WE BEHAVE LIKE HUMAN BEINGS by D GEORGE DORSEY ph D LL 11 D tt U now how arid and why bodies fossilize U T well protected or in maln w less lesa peru ieru or egypt or in dry coves caves or the cold storage of arctic ice fee or in oil wax or amber the lie andy soon yields to the bacteria of decoy decay or to the teeth of wolves and hyenas for bone or other tissue to be replaced by mineral whereby it petri petrifies fies or i fossilized fossilizes fossi lizes many conditions must be right the wiser the uni animal the les less likelihood of its being caught in or by the gravel and silt of floods primitive man was co as little enamored as we are arc of being burled buried alive fossil remains of the famous cro agnon man have been found in wales a and nd especially in france possibly earth never saw liner built human beings ills brain was 15 per ceril larger than ours its stature taller than any living race by two indies inches ile he was clean little and swift ile he had a good ellin thick and strong jaws ills head bend was long tits his face brond lie ile burled buried his dead ile he was an artist and an ar artisan ilsan ile he lived live about 2 years ago did he become tin in ordinary or did tie be pear no one knows beyond cro magnon our forebears rather run to brutish casts man was of the negroid type neanderthal man had a huge head chipped flint and burled his dead tie ile Is set down at B C and left no known heirs ue ile Is the first known caveman cave man inan the jaw of heidelberg ninn fits a gorilla but the lie teeth are ours ile he Is possibly years old roan man Is possibly a hundred thousand years der some think tie he wits un tin ape some say tie he was the first eng ll Il sliman we have reached a point in wile time where no one knows chos wilo who the champion fossil Is s thevan ape man erect discovered by dubols in java in 1801 tie Is certainly a half million years old sopie some say a million ile he Is more coid than any known dumun being more anthropoid anthrop okd than any known ape ue ile was ns its erect and almost ns as tall all as tile the average european ile he had definitely definite left the avell well ventilated ar boreal tenements ile he was a low moron and may inny be represent sent ed in the living lash flesh but whether he was of the direct line that flint led to man or only of a line that ended with himself Is not yet definitely known it Is enormously significant that after a debate lasting more than a quarter of a century the biologists of tile the world cannot decide whether ill he canth electus erectus belongs to the first or tile the second of the earths first families that makes him blin a pretty good link that Is no longer missing to import monkeys for their sex glands Is ghastly business perhaps the OIL lowest that has engaged the cupid ity and lust of man but to shoot down sini simians lans as we do rand mad dogs or hoya boya la ili uniform Is a crime the four anthropoid apes are our next of kin living they should be respected as cousins and not exterminated as vermin or indians man alan was never a gorilla a chimpanzee an orang or a gibbon no hlll aglet ever made ench each a claim flieth wit eth er these apes could anve developed into human beings is a different story tl TI ey have the makings all the parts if we ne knew how heredity works and could control varl variation atlen we might breed from an ape a being that could dig a ditch play the plane piano talk kw ena and sing aang the 11 1 messiah we can teach them to smoke cigarettes chew clif tobacco drink beer wear clothes and eat with a h nire knife and fork we do not yet know the he limit of their capacity to learn human ways why do zoologists put these four apes so BO close behind us that we can feel their breath and they cw can catch our diseases because they are an nothing has yet surpassed them in the race to become human their anatomy embryology histology morphology paleontology philology and psychology entitle thera them to second place in the ancient and honorable order of firsts they vary in their man likeness nu no one Is in nil ways ays closest to man the orang looks like an irishman the gorilla Is built like jack dempsey the chimpanzee is the roost most angelic the del delicate lente gibbon lias has a lady ilke llop skull d an upright carriage tile the first I 1 three the great apes are tile the ex of var variation littlon from a generalized j ancestor T gibbon varies least and to that extent Is nearest 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 Is a brute tn in size and appearance only five fire feet high he may weigh over pounds mostly neck chist cht st and arms it if tits his legs were of human proportions he would stand over seven feet high the chimpanzee III like e the gorilla lives in jungle africa like the corll in lie he has a shuffle along galt gait swinging ills his body between ills his long arms lie ile lins has the goril lits proportions but never tile the great bulk of chest and so BO la more at home in the flip trees where he builds his nest as does the orang the chimpanzees llull Is not unlike the wie me ape nian man erect tried on when turning into inan and gave up lip becal bemuse lse 11 II lind t too 00 much jaw for the lie teeth required and not enough bruin hex for ideas IQ b by georg A dorsey doney |