THE " MISSING LINK."
A REMARKABLE DISCOVERY. BOTH APE AND MAN. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyrisbt. PARIS, 16th December. The Natural History Museum at Paris has secured some pleistocene human remains which were unearthed at Chapel-aux-Saints, in the Department of Correze. It is supposed that they constitute the missing link, for they possess the characteristics of both ape and man. The skull resembles that of a human being, while the limbs indicate that the creature walked upon all fours. There are a good many "missing links" in the theoretical evolutionary chain. Haeckel, with remarkable boldness, has supplied them in detail from imagination — an MendelolT inferred certain unknown metals to complete the elementary chain — but on less solid grounds ; and while the great chemist's forecast •was afterwards veriried, the biologist's missing forms exist so far only hypothetically. ''The missing link," however, is one which should connect man with the anthropoid ape. Its discovery has been many times announced since the appearance of the once-famous "Vestiges ol Creation," but it is yet to seek. This latest find is, as usual, vaguely described, and may or may not be of importance.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 144, 17 December 1908, Page 7
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