148 WHAT EVOLUTION IS 



simply overwhelming in amount. Man 

 appears to have been on the earth for 

 nearly half a million years. His old- 

 est known representative is from Java, 

 the Trinil man or Pithecanthropus, 

 a restoration of whose head has been 

 made by McGregor. This is shown in 

 an outline sketch at the top of page 149. 

 For the use of this sketch and the 

 other outlines of heads on this page, 

 I am indebted to Professor R. S. Lull 

 and to the Yale University Press. 

 Pithecanthropus flourished about 

 500,000 years ago and is believed to 

 have made use of fire and simple flint 

 implements. 



Of later date is the dawn-man, 

 Eoanthropus, of Piltdown, England, 

 who lived about 250,000 years ago. 

 His bones seem to be the most ancient 

 remains of man in England and occur, 

 associated with crude stone imple- 

 ments and the remains of several 



