THE EVOLUTION OF MAN 



Still, a few others did not agree with this 

 idea. The cavity of the skull, so far as it was 

 preserved, was filled with gypsum in order to 

 find out how much space it contained for a brain. 

 The figure ascertained by this means was ap- 

 proximately half-way between a gorilla and the 

 lowest Australian aborigine. That is to say, its 

 brain capacity exceeded by far that of a gibbon 

 without however coming anywhere near that of 

 present-day man or even the ice-age man. What 

 sort of a creature could this be? The scientists 

 disagreed. "A very gibbon-like man," said some 

 of them. "A very man-like gibbon," said the 

 others. The discoverer Dubois took a middle 

 course ; he baptized this creature with the double 

 name of Pithej^njftror^^ 



This disagreement of the scientists is very in- 

 structive in our research. We learn, as an actual 

 fact, that in the Tertiary period there still existed 

 on this globe certain creatures which stood about 

 half-way between a man and a gibbon. Their 

 skull exaggerated those characteristics, by which 

 the ice-age man was distinguished from present- 

 day man, to such an extent that this creature ap- 

 proached a new station which we have long 

 known by the name of. monkeys. In this way 

 we are given a definite goal indicating the first 



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