CREATION BY EVOLUTION 



yet persist. In Europe they had a similar history except 

 that they reappear from some Asiatic or African fastness^ 

 flourish for a while, and die out again until the coming of 

 Man. The monkeys of Gibraltar are really African, despite 

 their foothold in this outlying rock. 



Living monkeys, both tailed and man-like, are found to-day 

 in both Africa and Asia, and although all are derived from 

 the same root as mankind, the great or man-like apes, espe- 

 cially the gorilla and chimpanzee, are our next of kin, 

 being separable from man, aside from spiritual values, by 

 what in other creatures would be considered inconsequential 

 details. It is only our lack of perspective that makes us 

 imagine a considerable gulf between us. 



Human and simian relationships are not yet clearly trace- 

 able; they are inferred from close structural and functional 

 similarities, the distinctions being referable to differences of 

 habit and habitat. That man and the great apes are cousinly 

 descendants from a common stock all scientists believe; they 

 do not believe, as some imagine, that man is an exalted ape 

 or that the ape is a degenerate man, though what one should 

 call the common progenitor, if not an ape-like form, I do not 

 know. This precursor of ours has been long sought, and he 

 has been called the "missing link," as though one link could 

 constitute a chain covering many thousands of years of 

 descent. 'Pithecanthropus, the form found by Dr. Dubois in 

 Trinil, Java, in 1891-92, stands not far from the ancestral 

 form and more than any known today deserves this title. 

 This type, which existed half a million years ago, was then 

 already erect, though not perhaps of god-like carriage, show- 

 ing how remote was the attainment of this human character- 

 istic; but in form and capacity of skull he lies about midway 

 between the gorilla and the Neanderthal type of man that 

 lived in Europe some 25,000 to 40,000 years ago. In that 



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