Word: glacial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South America respectively are considered better courses in Physiography from the point of view of the human geographer. Course 4a was criticized as being too technical for one in Systematic Geography which deals with its effect on humans. Bryan, who gives this course, is primarily an authority on glacial geology, outside of Physiography itself, and Geography concentrators find the course rather useless. The lack of a good textbook adds to their difficulties. But there are many facts in Physiography which are necessary for the Divisional exams and can best be obtained in a course...
...Choukoutien about a decade ago by a Chinese scientist named Pei Wen-chung; and the Java apeman, Pithecanthropus erectus, discovered on the banks of Java's Bengaman River in 1892, by Dutch Anthropologist Eugene Dubois. Both of these oldsters appear to have lived at the beginning of the Glacial Period-roughly 1,000,000 years...
...anthropologists had as clear a picture of human evolution as they have of horse evolution (a neat series ascending from four-toed little eohippus), their lives would be less exciting but laymen would understand them better. Professor Dubois first ascribed Pithecanthroptis to the Pleistocene or Glacial Age, then shifted him to the preceding period, the Pliocene. Although extremely apelike, he was admitted to the human family by the skin of his primitive teeth, but Professor Dubois has changed his mind again, now pigeonholes the ancient creature as an ape related to the gibbons. Professor Dubois considers that all the original...
...quality of any individual mind is probably inherent and immutable." As a profound student of evolution, he knows that in so highly evolved an animal as man evolution does not stand still. The species either progresses or degenerates. Since he discerns no improvement since the end of the Glacial Period and since the signs of deterioration are already apparent to his trained eye, he concludes that the present course of man is downhill...
...late 19th Century, scientists were so puffed with the importance of their contemporary culture that discussion of prehistoric art remains discovered in Belgium and France, with their implication that a respectable culture had flourished in glacial times, was subtly but systematically suppressed. It was then held that Stone Age culture died when the ice receded northward for the last time. Leo Frobenius did not believe "anything so essentially alive could vanish so completely." He coaxed, cajoled and corn-pelled his elders to back his theory that Stone Age men had taken their chisels and paint brushes down into Africa after...