For one hundred years, anthropologists have searched for the "missing links" to man's ancestry.A new ‘missing link’ between our ape-like ancestors and early humans has been identified, showing that we were still swinging from the trees less than two million years ago. But the "missing link" - long overlooked by scientists - stands revealed. HAVEN'T YOU often wondered where you came from? That is, who are your ancestors - not of one hundred or two hundred years ago, but of one - two - five THOUSAND years ago?Īnd what of the possibility that your ancestors go back 35,000 years, or 600,000 years, or three million years? Read the proof in this surprising article. Until about one hundred years ago, the prevailing idea was that the human family was only about six thousand years old. The Birth of Evolution Charles Lyell, a geologist, was one. Lyell claimed to see much time in the geological record - much, much more time than had been previously accepted.Īnother outspoken giant of his time was Charles Darwin. He proposed evolution as the process by which all things came to be as they are. Most, at the time, were violently opposed to Darwin. Young scientists, imbued with the revolutionary idea of man's evolution, occupied the universities, did research and wrote books. Today, few scientists of note would believe in the literal account of Genesis. A popular book on the subject sums up the idea: Few believe that life and man were created. "The story of creation, as told in the Bible, is a fine case in point. Clark Howell, Early Mall, New York: TIME-LIFE Books, 1968, p. Today, there are multiple hundreds of archaeological sites the world over. Who, for example, has not heard of Neanderthal Man, of Peking Man, of Java Man, of Zinjanthropus, of the Heidelberg jaw, of the Taungs baby, of Cro-Magnon Man? And the fossils are often found in droves. These names are familiar to nearly every student. Writer Philip Van Doren Stern could confidently state in 1969: Such a mountain of bones, artifacts, and new dating methods has, it would seem, buried the Bible. "Prehistory was on the way in the 1860's, marching in step with Darwin and his supporters. What then of the fossil record of early man? Who are our ancestors? Earth taken from excavation after excavation was burying the men who still insisted that the Bible was the only reliable guide to the antiquity of man." (Philip Van Doren Stern, Prehistoric Europe, New York: W. What Puzzled Darwin For practical purposes, there was no fossil evidence for human evolution in Darwin's day. Perhaps that is why Darwin mentioned the origin of human beings only ONCE in his The Origin of Species.Īnd it was, as one book mentioned, a "single timid sentence." Said Darwin, "Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history."ĭarwin was extremely troubled by this lack of fossil proof for his theory. Yet, he believed that fossils alone could provide the only possible direct proof that evolution had in fact occurred. I will here only state that I BELIEVE the answer mainly lies in the record being incomparably less perfect than is generally supposed." (Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, New York: Collier, 1962, page 168.) Time after time, throughout his The Origin of Species, Darwin almost apologetically made such admissions as, "As by this theory innumerable transitional forms must have existed, why do we not find them embedded in countless numbers in the crust of the earth?.
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