A Story Outline of Evolution 



Like a hound dog following the scent of a trail and the 

 hunter and tracker the tracks of some certain animal after 

 a new fallen snow, certain men of science are following the 

 dim paths of early human progress that date back to a period, 

 perhaps, 200,000 or 500,000 years ago. These trails may 

 be lost for a time on some wind swept ridge or in a mass of 

 bramble where they are mingled with and obscured by many 

 cross trails; but they are gathered up again at points where 

 their identity Is certain and positive and the trail Is more 

 pronounced than ever before. These men of science have 

 been developing the negative of human forms and actions 

 that obtained in that remote period which we call the "dawn 

 of civilization." We must look through a dark veil, the 

 shadows of time, to see the real picture but these negatives 

 are being developed into pictures of life as it was In the dawn 

 of our human existence. 



The next great step In the ascent of the human line is 

 found In the Mousterlan or Neanderthal men. This race 

 is called Mousterlans in England and Neanderthal men In 

 Germany but they were the same people who Inhabited most 

 of Europe, Western Asia and Northern Africa before and 

 during the last or fourth great Ice Age. They were the 

 dominant creatures of the earth during a period about ten 

 times as long as the entire historical period of mankind. 

 They had climbed higher In the scale of animal life than any 

 of their predecessors had done. They were horrible looking 

 creatures but they were the first to reach the stage of devel- 

 opment wherein they are classified as human — just one step 

 beyond the dividing line between animal and man. Let us 

 examine the evidence that they have passed on to us so that 



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