EVOLUTION.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 May 1923, Page 3

EVOLUTION.

ANOTHER' EXPERT’S VIEWS. AUSTRALIAN AND N . 7.. CABLE ASSOCIATION. (Received this dav at 0.15 a.m.) LONDON. May 2. Arthur Keith, lecturing before the Royal Institution said evolution whs not working ill the direction of a superman with a swollen head and small facts. There was positive evidence in some countries that brains were growing smaller. Not one person in fifty of the present generation, uses his brain to half its capacity. Most, of Us have more brain than we know " fiat ui do with. The most plastic bone in the human hcilv is that under the giim... in which the teeth arc looted. In tliiiiy pel- cent of the Biitish people to-day this hone, instead i spreading outwards and giving the mouth a wide, low vault as in prehist one races, was growing vertically, giving n narrow* plate. Wisdom teeth were l tills, el ten crowded out. giving the nose- and l inn mid: c prominence. Keith states Kniumeror was a scieutAt whn.-e theories were worthy of every ((iiisideialion. bill so far lie has never produced a new facility. The newt originally pos-essed sight ami had only Inst the faculty it seeing. His experiments applied in human beings might

le.-tore dormant faculties, and if so instead of super-men we might become jungle people again. .Animal instincts would he restored and become dominant. “I could by expe: intent produce a iire of tailed men.''

Professor lb W. ALicbride (biologist! ami Dui tors F. 11. Marshall and (I. Elliott Smith, aho speak highly of Kammerer's investigations.