EVOLUTION

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 3 May 1923, Page 7

EVOLUTION

BRAINS GROWING SMALLER. WANT OF EXERCISE. IT CiHl,*!—Vlswifi iVSSUOIA'i'rO.iN—OOPYaiWHT , Received May 3, 9.50 a m I LONDON, May 2. bir Arthur Keith, lecturing before the Royal institute, said that evolution was not working in the direction ol supermen with swollen heads and sniali faces. There was positive evidence in some countries that urams were growing smaller, and not one person in fifty of the present generation uses his brain to half its capacity. Most of us have more brain than we know what 'to do with. The most plastic bone in the human body is that under the gums, m which the teeth are rooted; ■ but in thirty per cent, of the British people to-day this bone, instead of ■ spreading outwards and giving the mouth a wide and low vault, as m , premstoric races, -was growing vertically, giving a narrow palate. The wisdom teeth" were thus crowded out, giving the nose and chin undue prominence. Dr. Keith stated that Kammerer was a scientist whose theories were worthy of every consideration, but so rar he has never produced a new faculty. Newts originally possessed sight, and had only lost "the faculty ol seeing. Bis experiments applied to the human bemg mlrdit restore dormant faculties, vtA if so, instead of supermen we might become iungle people: again. The animal instincts would be restored and would become dominant. "I could by experiment produce a race of tailed men." i Professor E. TV. Macßride. (biologist) and Drs. F. H. Marshall and G. F.lliott fcmitb nlso speak highly of Dr. Ka.m- ---| merer's investigations. ' i