STILL WORKING!
EVOLUTION’S EFFECTS ON MAN
EARS BECOMING SMALLER
WISDOM TEETH NOT WANTED
United Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received Jan. 24, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 23.
Dr. Adclph Schultz, Associate Lecturer in Anthropology at the John Hopkins Medical School, and widely known for his researches on the bodily structure of men as compared with other primates, stated that scientific men were finding evidence that evolution was still working on the body of man.
Evolution, he said, was decreasing the size of the ears and it was working towards the complete elimination of the wisdom teeth, having already eliminated two roots thereof. The bones of the little too were being reduced in number. The eyes in a greater number of persons were on differing levels. Tha opposite sides of the mouth usually differ in size. The level of the right arm is usually lower than the left and the collarbone is seldom symmetrical and one foot is usually larger than the other.
Dr. Schultz said tha smaller ear conclusion was based on an examination of a large number of bodies be-
fore birth and adult bodies after death as well as living children and adults. The tendency in tha past was fer the ear to continue its growth after birth and to increase in size in proportion to the body. They found the tendency was for the ear to decrease in size compared with the size of the body.—A. and N.Z.C.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11011, 25 January 1926, Page 5
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