EVOLUTION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2991, 28 January 1926, Page 1

EVOLUTION.

EVIDENCES BY SCIENTIFIC MEN. New York, January 22. Dr. Adolph Schultz, associate lecturer in anthropology at the John Hopkins Medical School, widely known for his l’esearehes on the bodily structure of man, compared with other primates, stated that scientific men were finding evidence that evolution was still working on the body of man. Evolution was decreasing the size of the ears. It was working towards the completo elimination of the wisdom teeth, having already eliminated two roots of these teeth. The bones of the little toe were being reduced in number. The eyes in theg reater number. The eyes in the greater levels. The opposite sides of the mouth usually differed in size and the level of the right arm was usually lower than the left. The collarbone was seldom symmetrical, and one foot was usually larger than the other

Dr. Schultz said the smaller ear conclusion was based on the examination of a large number of bodies before birth and adult bodies after death, as well as living children and adults. The tendency in the past was for the ear to continue its growth after birth, and to increase in size in proportion to the body. They now found the tendency was for the ear to decrease in size compared with the size of the body.