EVOLUTION RESEARCH

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21976, 10 June 1933, Page 11

EVOLUTION RESEARCH

WAS DARWIN WRONG? CONDON, May 31. Darwin would have abandoned his dream of a single great genealogical tree for all species of animals if he had lived to see the later advances in animal anatomy, says Dr Albert Flcischmann, professor of comparative anatomy at Erlangen (Bavaria) University. Anatomical research, he said, had not confirmed Darwin’s theory of man’s evolution from the ape, yet evolutionists still searched for ancestors in the graveyards of the past. Scientists of to-day had classified approximately 1,000,000 animal species which could not have 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 grows into an adult would be far more profitable than unverified guesses at genealogical changes in extinct species of which only fragments of skeletons remain. Living bodies could not be regarded as the results of little accidents.