ORIGIN OF MAN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 20056, 20 September 1920, Page 6

ORIGIN OF MAN.

UTUfiNCH SCIENTIST’S' THEORY. • _ HARIS, August 7. That tho original germ of humanity found its home in the deep sea, where It gradually evolved to its present form, long has been the theory of scientists who have been ridiculed as radicals, but there is interesting comment to-day in support of the theory advanced at the (Strasbourg Scientific Congress last week by Hr Keating tiara, who lias spent years of research in physical phenomena. 'J he doctoi points out that the temperature of the human body reaches Us maximum at four o’clock in tho afternoon and twelve hours later. “J.f we accept the marine hypothesis,” he says, “it is now easy to understand how the germ destined to become man Was submitted to certain physical conditions. Hiiiition of human serum, ivhicli' is’ the same composition as sea water but only one-fifth as salty, may be explained if the germ is refuged in the mouth of a great river. The temperature normal of 98 degrees probably was obtained from the water of ancient seas, winch undoubtedly were warmer than they are to-day.” * Hr, Hart continued to show that human temperature variation corresponds with the change of water temperature through the action of the sun, the maximum and minimum coinciding both at the same hour effected this degree of variation. “There is little doubt,” he added, “that this l-hytinn -of heat in humans is merely the persistence of the ancestral phenomenon of our marine parent*.”