New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 13, 1926, Page 15

Scientists to Search Gobi Hill [or Bones of Addam —;, . CIENCE 18 on a man ! Into the wilds of the Mo Roy Chapman Andrews and u seeking traces of Adam, Tt s not the Adam of the Bible that this party open to find but it 1s the first man of the human era, . n desert of Gohi party will push He will be a man who lived on this earth millions of years ag He wis the first of the living things that aim the title of man. Every ng that bore the spark of life before him was mamm He will not Le a descendant of the ape, scientists be ieve, About the same time that the apa developed from a ‘our-footed mammal man also was developing The ape and the man may be sald to be both starting from almost t For the first hun sand years, aclentists belfeve, the difference between the man embryo and the ape's an branches, e same pol tree of lite estor was slight, But something happened, The ape developad higl 1 developed faster i1} t only to a certain point, Then one day—it was not a day in our sense of the word, but a day of thousands of years duration, e the first man, rged He was the first living creature that tulfilled the sclen- tific definition of man, Of cours: . it is beyond the happlest hopa of the sclen ¥ that they may find the first individual that was tifle par Metropalitan M tha in Yucatan, by A man, If they find but the bones of a descendant that lived half & million years later they will be overjoyed. $230,000 FOR A SKULL party is gambling @ quarter of a m! nfa: in versity; Dr. Andrew! i years of their existence and risk of on Institute; in New Mexi, the Ozark Moun- dollars in cash, fis o Amer- Lydia, Asia M- thelr lives in the hope of findIng perhaps only a skull that can take its place in the oycle of time as he parent of he world, There {8 romar In thls strange hunt, TRACE DUSKY EMPIRE It was 48 years ago that Professor Henry F. a member of Dr. Andrews’ previous expedition, made the prediction that led to the search, Professor Osborn assembled all th. known ut early man befora him, He studied tr nan, his ancestor, the Pi the Piltdown man, the Neanderthal man, Magnon man, Mondolian 8 woman wit elab = hes hecanthropus, and 1 Remalns of these ea bitants of the sphere had not een confined to one continent. Furth rmore, animals have been contemporaneous with them sere ind in widely scattered por \nown ns of the earth. And the liest of these men showed a high development. Preceding our own race by ten to twenty thousand vears were the artloving Cro-Magnons of Europ.e brain was as large as our own, and ev #ir intelligence was hig! ence indicates that v developed,” he said MINDS OF HIGH TYPE sSuperior individuals of this race undoubtediy developed {losophy . that could take its place with the sLilosophy of the modern man. We have evidence of great it took centuries for these people to develop. Ve we can traae the Cro-Magnons to Asia.” igence—it is t that puts man above the nitnmal—grows slowly. Tie ape has been on this ez h as long as man, he ape has not developed the brain that ma ARTIST'S CON( JFTION OF PRIMITIVE FAMILY has been on earth longer, perhaps, Yet it has hut a feeble intelliger e. Its opportu almost nities, of course, were much less than the OPPOTY: conndent that G ' otoe Kosren : v od was @ s 3 specimens. : . in which the present expedition is me ideal for the deve sarco- cham- - rowded w.th wonderful Vs + densely " Pro R e 3 : vorks ¢ of @ kind, Perhaps tessord Osborn de is is indieated by an : : < 0 4y S Bl S . i & 2 ON MAN o the loss orle Nt afi ma ains. No race can develop in the Irewy declares, Ot bottoms, where there is 2 1 a year W the platea niost exacting and where the stry « icns the wits and makes man elop ¢ always was upland coun age of mammals. It was an o here and there, and with 2 mlike that of the United 8 MAY FIND WONDERS f ° “GARDEN OF EDEN" von VCCIDENTAL FIND d if he earliest hu here, was the G SRS \ 3 L o t st men e animals he ! tions his LN found. Some of tb e were un AL R ) 1200 T v J s ther er ad anyor had rot been found. He A t ! f n Its \ \ ¢ A and res present exped jarter of a million : g Rl dollars, is one of t equipped in history _ AL “Money talks, ¢ es talk to get mone HUGE CARAVAN [ v v N ! ' s nd Rus PREDICTION COMES TRUE THaC an ercellont e Tite T 5 ; 5 s W N Espsditions set out and found foss Millionaires are us i M 1 > mammal Professor Osborn had pred n they have ma ¢ i is giv | I 1 pilies, ¢ exception. That exception was the five-toed horse. nd of venture. e - hoatt \ T s 1 v 3 the bones of the first man are yet to he un ¢ v interested in 1 X[ imels WANDERED FROM HOME N coverad, race comes fi But Professor Osborn's prediction has been se nswer