A Story Outline of Evolution 



of life. All these accomplishments which they do not have 

 give to him mastery in the kingdom of life. 



The immediate ancestors of man were super apes or ape- 

 like men. They traveled not the same road as did the orang- 

 utan, gibbon, gorilla or chimpanzee, but instead, they trav- 

 eled the human road in their ascent. Just where or when 

 the original ancestors parted company is not known but we 

 do know that our body forms have changed from ape like 

 creatures to that of human forms. Both man and the great 

 apes have cast off their useless tails in the long ago. Both 

 man and the great apes during their embryonic development 

 have tails as long as their bodies which are absorbed and 

 cast off before birth. The evidence of the immediate human 

 changes from a lower to a higher form is not as plentiful as 

 is that of the apes and other mammals but it is sufficiently 

 plentiful to establish the scientific facts that these changes 

 have taken place. Scientists have been searching in all parts 

 of the world for information and proof that will solve the 

 "Riddle of the Ages." They have been attempting to lift 

 the curtain of time, to widen the horizon a little further Into 

 the past. Finally their efforts are rewarded, a little here 

 and a little there. From Taungs in South Africa, there 

 comes the skull of a five-year-old child that is more human 

 than any of Its predecessors. Its skull has begun to bulge, 

 to fill out above the eyes. Its jaws are massive. It is not 

 human — it is a super ape. Geologists place Its age at a time 

 when India and Africa were yet joined Into one mainland. 

 Then from far off Java comes the incomplete skeleton of 

 something that Is half human, half animal. It is neither man 

 nor ape. It represents a step between the two. Its skull is 



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