MAN OR APE?

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13837, 17 December 1908, Page 5

MAN OR APE?

AN INTERESTING SKELETON.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright., j PARIS, Dec. IG. I The natural History Museum in Paris has secured some pleistocene human remains that were unearthed in a chapel at Aux Saints, in the province of -Corrcze. They are. supposed to represent j "the missing link.',' > They have the characteristics of the ape and man. The skull resembles that of a human being and the limbs indicate a creature that w,ajkcd on all foxip. [Darwin in his theory of evolution traced the progress of life from the lowest form of plant life to the highest, then by gradual changes into the animal life, through ' animal life up to the complex form of the ape. -The ape is nearest in form to the human kind, but "between the two there 1 is so great a difference that Darwin' cotild not believe'the evolution from', the ape to the' man Jiad'trfken place' ; Jn"6rio^stage. He searched 'Vj,thcxvt? j success foi* 'the* "misg-^. ing link.'", • l HSfv^jir likely 'spec^ieiife' wore foiftui fn tivd-East-, Jndiesr, ftht-.fi&pi* • scientists.! „ . A , t . . ■,?"-..,;