ANTHROPOLOGY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19696, 25 January 1926, Page 9

ANTHROPOLOGY

PROCESS OF EVOLUTION. IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES. CPicss Ajwooiation—By Telegraph—Copyright.) NEW YORK, January 22. (Received Jan. 24, at 5.5 p.m.) Dr Ardolph Schultz, associate lecturer jp anthropology at the John Hopkins Medical School, widely known, for his researches on the bodily structure of men compared with other primitives, stated that scientific men were finding evidence that evolution was still working on the body of man. Evolution was decreasing the size of the ears; it was working towards the complete elimination of wisdom teeth, having already eliminated two roots of these. The bones of the little toe were being reduced in number. The eyes in the greater number of persons were on differing levels; the opposite sides of the mouth usually differ in size, and the level of the rigid arm is usually lower than the left; the collarbone is seldom symmetrical, and one foot is usually larger than tie other. Dr Schultz said the smaller ear conchision was based on an examination of a large number of bodies before birth, and adult bodies after death, as well as living children and adults. The tendency in the past was for the car to continue its growth after birth, and to increase in size in proportion to the body. They now found that the tendency was lor the ear to decrease in size, compared with the size of the body.—A. and N.Z. Cable.