MILLION YEARS HENCE

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 August 1934, Page 4

MILLION YEARS HENCE

MAN'S BIGGER BRAIN. What will man be like one million years hence? When this question ctime up yesterday at the summer school of the British Social Hygiene Council at Digswell Park, Welwyn, the view was expressed that there will be no very marked change in the physical characteristics of man save for a very much enlarged forehead. This “forecast” was given by Mr D. W;ird Cutler, deputy-director of the Rothamsted Experimental Station, in the first of a series of lectures on biology. Jlfi was dealing- will) Hie question of evolution w|th special reference Io human affairs.

“In my opinion, man’s advance will mainly be in the brain and mentality, and the only physical change which will result from this will be a considerable increase in the size of the forehead.

“As for the other parts of man’s body. 1 do not think it will develop material change, in spite of all that one hears about our toes tending to disappear because they are useless, and about the tendency for man to lose the use of his legs because he walks less and less.”

Air,Ward Cutler said that the conception of evolution as meaning a si< tidy advance was a wrong one looked at from the anthropological point of view. All through evolution one found nature had been making a large number of experiments, and probably more of her experiments were failures than successes, ,