ENVIRONMENT.
AN OLD THEORY REFUTED. Variation is a primary factor of life and is not necessarily dependent upon environment (Dr Adolph Schultz, of John Hopkins University, declared upon his return from the jungles of the Costa Rican border, where for three weeks he and Dr George B. Wislocki, of the same university, lived among, ate, and dissected monkeys). “ We have been accustomed,” said Dr Schultz, “ to thinking of environment as causing the differences in human physique, but our monkey studies seem to indicate otherwise. For example, we found a tribe of perhaps fifty titi monkeys which lived in the same trees, ate the same food, and took the same exercise, and whose ancestors have been in the same place probably for one thousand centuries, to have the same physical variations as any group of United States citizens whose ancestors probably came from the four corners of the earth.” The scientists were surprised at the diseases which they found affecting monkeys.
The experiments made on this trip. Dr Schultz said, were much the same as were made on a similar one into the interior of Nicaragua eight ago.
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Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 311, 24 October 1929, Page 1
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