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...future when American history is no longer honeycombed with patriotic myths, school-children in addition to learning that the Pilgrims did not and on Plymouth Rock, will also be taught that Columbus sailed west, not because he thought the World was round, but because a Mendelian instinct inherited from Cro-Magnon ancestry, showed him that there was land in that direction...
...associated with the skeleton of a Cro-Magnon, near Menton, were the skeletons of a woman and child, negroid-perhaps invaders from Northern Africa. Evolution and Religion. If one accepts evolution as a fact (not a theory) -and Prof. Lull insists that all informed scientists do-what is the religious consequence? It means rejection of the doctrine of the Ark, of a literal seven days of creation, of a direct creation of man and the higher animals. It leaves fully open the possibility of believing in potential creation, of a Creator having ordered things so that this evolution would come...
...anthropology of the tale, as given in the press, involves the use of the popular phrase "Nordic stock," as well as the blessed words "Paleolithic or cro-Magnon type" and "neolithic Mongolian." But the visitors will have to submit their jaws to the calipers of local science before these adjectives can be sorted...
...Museum; Dr. Chester Stock, of the department of paleontology, University of California. Their reports seem to indicate that the remains are not only the oldest of the prehistoric man in America, but that they belong to the "true men," i.e., contemporaries and even more advanced in development than the Cro-Magnon race of Western Europe, 20,000 to 50,000 years ago, whom Henry Fairfield Osborn declares to have been the mental equals of college men of today. The Los Angeles finds, named the Haverty group in honor of the Irish contractor who found them, have brain cases as large...
...American Museum of Natural History: "In a lecture at Columbia University I said: 'Drinking is deadly. Every drinking man I knew in 1876 and every drinking student of mine up to the year 1890 has paid the death penalty. I have every reason to believe that the Cro-Magnon cave man of between 20,000 and 40,000 years ago could enter any branch of the intellectual life of this university on equal, if not superior terms with any of the 30,000 students here...