l88 THE MEANING OF EVOLUTION 



A committee of twelve naturalists was appointed to 

 report upon Dubois' find. Of this committee three 

 asserted the bones to be those of a low-grade man, 

 three insisted that they belonged to a high ape, of a 

 type somewhat higher than any we know to-day, but 

 still distinctly an ape. Six members of the commit- 

 tee of twelve agreed that the remains were those of a 

 creature higher than an ape and lower than any nor- 

 mal man, and represented, in their opinion, a stage 

 distinctly along the line of development out of the 

 apes and into man. 



This so-called ''Java find" is known in science by 

 the name of Pithecanthropus, which means the ape- 

 man. Whether we look upon this fossil as a serious 

 find or not, it is very certain that in the caves of 

 Europe belonging to the Quaternary period we find 

 abundant evidences of primitive man. The older these 

 evidences are, the more likely they are to be dis- 

 tinctly below the grade of man of to-day, in the size 

 and shape of the brain case and in the length and 

 massiveness of the jaw. 



There are probably more races than one repre- 

 sented among these skulls. Some of them are surely 

 well-deserving of the title of low brow. Their heavy 

 ridges over the eyes, their small foreheads, their mas- 

 sive, heavy-set jaws show a race of men far less en- 

 dowed mentally and much better endowed in the 



