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Most English scientists subscribed to theory that Eoanthropus dawsoni was a legitimate hominid fossil, and most of the English and U. S. press agreed with that. : British 1912-1917 Manchester Guardian: The Earliest Man? REMARKABLE DISCOVERY IN SUSSEX. A Skull "Millions of Years" Old Manchester Guardian (November 21, 1912) The Earliest Known Man. Manchester Guardian (November 21, 1912) The Earliest Skull. "A HITHERTO UNKNOWN SPECIES." STORY OF THE SUSSEX DISCOVERY. Manchester Guardian (December 10, 1912) |
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Paleolithic Skull Is a Missing Link Human Remains Found in England Similar in Some Details to Bones of Chimpanzee FAR OLDER THAN CAVEMEN Bones Probably That of a Direct Ancestor of Modern Man, While Cavemen Died Out. Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES. |
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Darwin Theory Is Proved True English Scientists Say the Skull Found in Sussex Establishes Human Descent from Apes. THOUGHT TO BE A WOMAN'S Bones Illustrate a Stage of Evolution Which has Only Been Imagined Before. CREATURE COULD NOT TALK Probably Lived at a Time When Other Species of Human Had Developed Further Elsewhere Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES December 22, 1913 |
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LONDON. Dec. 21.–A race of ape-like and speechless man, inhabiting England hundreds of thousands of years ago, when they had for their neighbors the mastodon and other animals now extinct is the missing link in the chain in man's evolution, which leading scientists say they have discovered in what is generally described as "the Sussex skull." To this Dr. Woodward proposes to give the name of "eoanthropus," or "man of dawn." Prof. Arthur Keith says that the discovery marks by far the most remarkable advance in the knowledge of the ancestry of man ever made in England and supports the view that man was derived not from a single genus or species, but from several different genera. He goes on: "It gives us a stage in the evolution of man which we have only imagined since Darwin propounded the theory." Prof. Keith expresses the opinion that the skull is what anthropologists have been seeking for forty years, namely, a tertiary man, mankind of the pliocene age, which was the beginning of the first great glacial period. "There is no doubt at all," he said, "that this is the most important discovery concerning ancient man ever made in England. It is one of the three most important discoveries of the sort ever made in the world. The other two were the discovery of the individual known as Pithecanthropus, made in Java in 1802 by Prof. Eugene Dubois. The other, which equals it in instructiveness and importance, is the skull discovered at Heidelberg six years ago. |
I didn't have to look around much for your next idiotic post.
The English got excited, yes. They finally had evidence for the "Out of England" theory.
All the finds thereafter painted a different picture. Only the English--and not all of them--didn't want to let go.
You can't make the last 200 years of science go away with Piltdown Man, Archaeoraptor, and Nebraska Man. You'll have to find some real evidence of your own for any alternative theory you may have.