ANIMAL ANATOMY

Evening Star, Issue 21433, 9 June 1933, Page 4

ANIMAL ANATOMY

MODERN RESEARCH METHOD OP DEVELOPMENT. LONDON, May 31. Darwin would have abandoned his dream of a single great genealogical tree for all species of animals if ho had lived to see the later advances in animal anatomy, says Dr Albert Fleischmann, professor of comparative anatomy at Erlangen (Bavaria) University. Anatomical research, he says, has not confirmed Darwin’s theory of man’s evolution from the ape, yet evolutionists still search for ancestors in the graveyards of the past. Scientists of to-day had classified approximately 1,000.000 animal species which could not nave developed - from one genealogical tree. On the contrary, the microscope showed that all animal structures had developed from special layers, recalling the annual rings in trees. He added that investigation of the marvel whereby a fertilised egg half a millimetre (one-fiftieth of an inch) in diameter 1 grows into an adult would he far more profitable than unverified guesses at genealogical changes in ex tinct species of which only fragments of skeletons remain. Living bodies could not be regarded as the results of little accidents