EVOLUTION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 13, 7 September 1912, Page 5

EVOLUTION.

,j PROFESSOR OSBORNE’S VIEWS. Melbourne, September 6. Professor Osborne, of Melbourne University, commenting on Professor Schaefer’s statements on the origin of life, said that in regard to the first statement, he thought the majority of scientists wore in accord with Professor Schaefer, but upon some of the others biologists would be much, divided. There would bo violent opposit on from that point of view, as well as from that of the theologian. The statements, lie said, may be taken as a reaction from the conclusions of men like Bergson, who entered the physiological field without adequate equipment I or training, and had been laying down ' the law of the superiority of spirit to matter.

PROFESSOR SMITH’S PAPER

London, September G. Professor Elliott Smith, in a paper read before the anthropological sec-, turn of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, on the evolution of man, said that as regards the orangoutang, chaimpanzee and gorilla, they wore not as ancestral forms of man, but as unenterprising members oi man’s family. They were simply men whose ancestors chose physical stlength rather than intelligence as a means of livelihood.