Evening Star Newspaper, May 15, 1933, Page 6

BIG BRAIN FOUND IN RARE GORILLA C. U. Study May Show High- est Intelligence of An- imal Kingdom. ‘What s believed to be the first scien- | tific study of the brain of & creature which, next to manealone, may repre- sent_the highest mental development in the animal kingdom, has just been Teported by Dr. C. J. Connolly of Cath- olic_University. The brain studied was that of Okero, | the 3-year-old mountain gorilla at the | Zoo who died a few months ago. It was turned over by the Smithsonian Institution to Dr. Connolly, who has made a specialty of comparative cere- bral anatomy. Gorilla brains on which measure- ments have hitherto been reported have belo to the sub-species of | coast gorillas. Mountain gorillas, which | live in_a more rigorous environment in the Belgian Congo, have very rarely | been in captivity, and superficially their behavior indicates a somewhat higher intelligence. Appear Startling. Superficially considered, Dr. Con- | nolly's findings were somewhat start- | ling. The brain of this baby gorilla— he weighed only 40 pounds in good health while the adult male of the species may go as high as 400 pounds— was absolutely one of the largest ever found in & great ape. It weighed 466.6 | his collection. co-ordination of movements. For tll' that, the gorilla was an_exceptionally clumsy little fellow—rather more so than the average human baby with a relatively smaller cerebellum. Dr. Connolly mnade a close study of the cerebrum—the “top of the brain” where are located the nervous centers of the primary senses, such as seeing and hearing and also the essential nervous mechanism of speech, con- scious control of bodily movement, and thinking. He found a rich pattern of | convolutions, especially in the frontal: lobe, which some authorities believe most closely associated with intelli- gence. Dr. Connolly’s findings are reported in the May issue of the Journal of Fhysical Anthropology. REAL HOPE N.OW FELT BY SECRETARY WOODIN Breathfng Spell First in Some Time ‘With Banking Situation Hav- ing Finally Settled Down. By the Ascociated Press. NEW YORK, May 15—William H. Woodin, enjoying a breathing spell for the first time since he becam: Secretary of the Treasury, says: “Now, thank God, I think I can say that I really feel hope in the air. The banking situation seems to have settled down and I feel real hope. Prophesy is a little out of fashion, but I do sense it.” So Woodin was home again yesterday among his books and music.” He got particular pleasure out of two cases of Cruikshank drawings, Just arrived for Undertakers’ Employes Strike. grams. a little over a pound. The average weight of the brains of six adult female coast gorillas reported by | Dr. Connolly was 379.3, about three- quarters of a pound. The average weight of three young male coast go- rillas, comparable in age to this one, was only 3188 grams. Assuming the gorilla’s brain growth | - rate to be about the same as that of | & human being, it might be calculated that by late adolescense this one would have grown at least one-third larger and reached a weight or more than 600 grams. The lightest normal human brain weighs around 1100 grams, and has_been considered more than twice as heavy as the heaviest ape brain. Thus there might be the implication that the mountain gorilla represents a considerable upward step from the level of the great apes toward the place "‘i homo sapiens. | Must Be Modified. i But such a conclusion must be greatly_modified by critical considera- tions, Dr. Cennolly points oui, It has been found that the anthropoid brain at birth already has attained about 70 per cent of its mature growth, while the brain weight of a human infant is only 36 per cent of that of the adult. The gorilia baby’s brain may have been about as big as it ever would have been. It is not even certain that he would have had a bigger brain than the adult male coast gorilla. All the adults of this species examined were females. It has been ascertained that the female gorilla's brain is only about 85 per cent as large as that of the male. Besides there are some technical weighing prob- | fems to be considered. Weights vary | slightly, depending on whether the | fresh ‘or preserved brain is weighed. | The outstanding difference is between | the weight of this brain and those of coast gorillas of comparable age. Actual brain weight itself has little meaning, it is explained, but* the ratio of brain weight to total body weight is sometimes taken as a very rough index of intelligence. The mountain gorilla | probably is heavier than gorilla and would require a relatively heavier brain. Cerebellum is Larger. The baby gorilla’s brain was typically enthropold. It had a relatively large cerebellum as compared to the cere- brum, as is charactaristic of the ape brains. 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It concerned itself, first, with a new pres- entation of Christian ethics and morals in the light of the incarnation. It had a_strong moralistic note. Second, it offered a new pristination of the ideal of sanctity and holiness, of the pat mountcy of the claim of God on men’s MR. SELINGER Says: WE ARE NOT GOING OUT OF BUSINESS! G__STAR, lives and their regeneration. Thelr po- tential power- and capacity is shown not only in the incarnation, but primma- rily in the risen Christ—God revealed not only Himself to mankind, but man’s own truest nature to men. It restored and restated the ideal of Christian holi- ness, the dedicated and consecrated life. Thirdly, it revindicated the super- natural origin and character of the church.” Daring Pronouncement. ‘The movement, he declared, tran- scended the ethical ideals of the times. It indicted a practical atheism which ignored the incarnate God. 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A rejuvenstion of Anglican theology foilowed in the wake of Keble's sermons and the ‘Tracts for the Times' published by the group. In social and economic matters, the church began to take a new view. The red gospel of secularism was challenged, and the spirit of Jesus Christ was pro- claimed as present in the world, ‘guid- ing us unto all the truth. i Program for Today. “A century has elapsed. The mes- sage of the Oxford movement of pro- gressive understanding of revealed truth is still fresh; the bond between man's ethics and the quality of God needs ever new restatement; the commonly called ‘degradation’ of our nature demands revision in the light of the capacities of humanity as revealed in the resur- rection; a new trumpet call to life of hard self-discipline and denial is the only hope for our age in times of domi- nance of secularism. 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