326 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
ANDER © POLOGY 
TERTIARY MAN. 
TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF ZABOROWSKI, BY E. L. BERTHOUD, A. M. 
(Contenued from June Number.) 
We do not believe it is possible to claim or admit that in this continued suc- 
cession of changes, physical as well as organic, that man alone has remained 
unchanged, especially when we reflect that changes in living beings are more 
rapid in direct proportion to their more complicated organization. 
Hence to suppose that the flint tools of Thénay may have been fashioned 
by a human being as far advanced, or rather we might better say, as highly de_ 
veloped as our present human races, is absolutely contrary to the fundamenta] 
laws of development, or the best recognized facts of paleontology. 
In view of this consideration, and its incontestable force, the formation of 
these flint tools has first been by M. de Mortillet, attributed to a being whom 
he calls the ‘‘ precursor of man,’’ in its widest sense; that is to say, not only in 
the category of individual or species, but in that of a genus preceding man, 
from which could have sprung at least two types of human races. 
M. Hovelacque has attempted an anatomical restoration of this presumed 
precursor to man after a comparison of anthropomorphous apes and the most 
ancient races of men, on the assumed explanation of their derivation from a com- 
mon ancestor. We have no space now for a detailed account or analysis of this 
attempt; but suffice it to say it is well worthy of our attention, although hazard- 
ous from the present state of our knowledge on these points. But this compari- 
son in itself is based on facts rigorously exact, and to-day admitted by Science. 
When in 1874 we noticed and proclaimed this precursor of man as the 
author of the chipped flint tools of Thénay; we then admitted that our present 
knowledge of facts bearing on this question did not allow us to affirm that the 
human and simian branches were or were not separated in the Miocene epoch: 
and that with this being the true precursor of the human race, we indicated or 
mentioned the hypothesis of a varied dezng, a species not yet fully established, that 
we called then ‘‘ Anthropiskes,” (future men) among whom could have been 
operated a return to a type purely Simian. 
Agreeing in this with Schleicher, who supposed that a certain number, or 
certain species of Anthropiskes had acquired under circumstances more or less 
favorable, the power of articulation, and had thus become men, while other 
branches of this genus less favored, had remained unchanged, had retrograded, 
