1 68 THE STORY OF ANIMAL LIFE 



But inquiry, carried* far afield in time and 

 place, has not been without result. For it is 

 generally believed that the remains found in 1894 

 in Java by Dr. Eugene Dubois, are veritably 

 those of the Missing Link. These remains, which 

 consist of the top of a skull, two teeth and a 

 thigh bone, belong either to the oldest Pleisto- 

 cene age, or to the upper Pliocene ; they are found 

 in association with the remains of other animals, 

 among which are included some forms now ex- 

 tinct, or absent from that region. These ape-like 

 remains have been carefully compared with those 

 of the lowest races of man which have hitherto 

 been found in a fossil state, and the result of the 

 comparison is as follows : Of twelve experts pres- 

 ent at the Zoological Congress held at Leyden, 

 " three held that the fossil remains belonged to a 

 low race of man, three declared them to be those 

 of a man-like ape of great size; the rest main- 

 tained that they belonged to an intermediate 

 form, which directly connected primitive man 

 with the anthropoid apes " (Haeckel). To the 

 creature represented by these bones has been 

 assigned the name of Pithecanthropus erectus, the 

 Upright Ape-Man. 



Let us now return from the subject of the 

 Java fossil to those inquiries which, as we have 

 above suggested, begin at home. We have al- 

 ready referred to the great principle of modern 

 zoology, that the history of the development of 

 the individual sums up the history of the develop- 

 ment of the race. Of late years it has occurred 

 to scientific men to apply this principle in the case 

 of human beings, and to ask, " What can the baby 

 teach us?" 



The Baby, for one thing, has a very small nose, 



