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TELE ORIGIN AND ANTIQUITY OF MAN 



^i n of different form* of ani- 

 mal life by adaptive modification and descent, it is only 

 one step further to apply the suiue reasoning to the 

 human species and to account for man as descended 

 from some lower animal form now extinct Darwin 



Mct'<l tl rj in his, "Descei. 



Darwin wrote there has been mm-li vil noe gathered 

 to support the doctrine of descent The evidence of 

 ^volution is now based upon the di> - of the ex- 



plorer, paleontologist anatomist, emhryologist, and 

 io legist Most natural s ti regard this body 



>timony as const it utin.vr a confirmation of the theory 

 "lution. I<T . . i tain forms of lit i ndeed, quite 



conclusive. 1 In this chapter, we shall concern ourselves 

 with an examination of the chief -\ i-l.-m-es for the doc- 

 that man is desc<Mnh-.l. in common with other ani- 

 mals now living, from some lower and extinct form. 



The success of any demonstration that man is related 



by descent to some \o\\ ; mis largely upon 



ihility to reconstruct the series of n-lat.nl forms. 



When the doctrine of the descent of man was first ad* 



vanced, superficial and popular writers imme<li 



jumped at the conclusion that naturalists believed that 



was descended from the "monk This, of 



> Hut thin it a matter that the rwufer ma look vp for klm~lf la UM 

 many books now available upon Ih* subject. 



