MAN'S ANCESTORS.
Startling development of the Darwinian theory is contributed by Dr. F. Jfelchers, the German biologist, in the "Zeitgeist." Instead of descent from a single race of ages, Jtelchers propounds the theory that mankind is really divided into four great race each of which is descended from one of the four race groups of anthropoid ■ tipe-s. Representatives of these tour are to bo found in existing gorillas, chimpanzees, ourangs, and gibbon apes. ■ From the'gorilla'type of,'ape. are descended, according to Jfelchers, what he calls the West-Congo Guinea-Sudan negro, the Bantus and Zulus and also tho fair-haired and red-haired northern races, iuclmliug the Finns; from, the chimpanzee ape are descended Bushmen, Lapps, Berbers, and Southern Europeans; the ourang-outang is the ancestor of the Tasinanians, Australians, and short-headed South Germans; while Mongolians, Malays, Polynesians, ana Siberians como from the gibbon ape.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 908, 30 August 1910, Page 6
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139MAN'S ANCESTORS. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 908, 30 August 1910, Page 6
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