THE MAN-MONKEY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 422, 3 February 1909, Page 4

THE MAN-MONKEY.

DISCOyiSETOEANOTHERMISSING LINKV PerrierrDirector:of,the Natural History: Museum .'.in ..Pans, has given the Academy of ; MturaUScienoes the,.results of his investiga-von-?f.l?t?i- 6 discovery made in-tho" Correze by MM,-Boanyssonie and Bardon 'of'the-fossil remains of.a creature, part-ape,- part man.- ■■' Rhinoceros teeth have,-also been -found in the spot from which the simian: man has .been unearthed:: _Tluscreature, says' M,. Perrier and M. ■ Boule; , Prof essor of Palaeontology at:the Museum,-, is .the-oldest;, known example■'":in'wiiioa the human characteristics are predomiibant m the formation and-capacity of the 6kull, He laved at the end of the tertiary-epoch, when the hairy mammoth was his contemporary ,and the rhinoceros, and: the climate of France was tropical; --''-.I r . :-. •■;, ■■■■ - , m; BonUvwas .struck by. tho resemblance 'between- the Neanderthal skull, discovered half a penturyago, and;the-Corr«e,:skull. An exact cast_of the former is kept, in the Museum. Jossilised parts of the. upper and lower limbs of the Correze monkey-man; have'been found. Ibeir form shows that ; their owner, though he could,, -with mora or less:- comfort;- walk ereot,want habitually ..on all.fours;: The facial bones : the protruding jaw, the' retreating ohin, the form of the the depression tae.brow and the nose, stamp the simian connections of the Correze "man.". The human promise .is indicated in the form and capacityof the skull. On the: simian side the Correze man somewhat, resembles -a",chimpanzee, i. - Xhe set.of the facial bones proves:that the creature!* face had novgift of mobile expres.sion.-, The, Correze..'man'';.could not ,Bmile. : Ages of evolution; had to pass before his des-' cendants roso to the level of a-rudimentnrv grimace, Man has been, defined from o her animahrby his art of cooking -hie food. As a definition, or description, or test, the smile >s at least as satisfactory. ;With the first S mentary smile -on. the prehistoric hairy face the apparition of "the, lord of creation fieoamo merely a matter of time.- . v^mo