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Based on the researches and arguments of Dr. Ales Hrdlicka. Bohemian-born curator of physical anthropology at the U. S. National Museum, the theory that North American Indians are of Asiatic origin has very nearly reached the status of a verdict by circumstantial evidence. Ethnological consensus is that the Mongol forbears of Amerindians crossed from Asia to Alaska some 15,000 years ago, crawled slowly down across Canada. From that time the story of their movement to the Eastern U. S. where white invaders found them has been fragmentary and obscure...
...candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Congressman from the first (North Long Island) district. He had the support of Democratic bosses against his friend, tall, handsome Robert Low Bacon, incumbent. Congressman Bacon, 48, onetime Harvard athlete son of rich, famed Robert Bacon, was once designated by Anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka as "the wholesome, effective type of future American." Candidate Whitney, twice married, is a grandson of William Collins Whitney, Secretary of the Navy under President Cleveland, great-grandson of Ohio's Senator Henry B. Payne...
Were American Indians Polynesians? Ales Hrdlicka (Smithsonian anthropologist now in Alaska) is certain that Mongolian-like peoples traveled across Bering Strait and eventually became Amerinds. Helen H. Roberts (of Yale's Institute of Human Relations) last week argued that Amerinds were originally Polynesians transported by canoe from the Pacific Islands. The Polynesian and American aborigines seem to have made cultural contacts long before European ships joined the two primitive races. Mis Roberts bases her arguments on 60 remarkable similarities between Polynesian and Amerind customs. Both groups make flutes of human bones, blow them through their noses, have conches for trumpets...
Animal-like behavior is a natural, evanescent phase of human development, Hrdlicka evidence already filed indicates. A certain boy, now an honor student in an Eastern college, as a child had no playmates until he found a lonesome pig in his backyard on a Western farm. Boy and pig played together, wallowed together, grunted to each other understandingly...
...little boy named David "talked" with all the dogs in his neighborhood, confused their masters by duplicating their individual barkings. From such data Dr. Hrdlicka surmises that "the proficiency with which some primitive people can call and understand wild animals may be a survival of this identification period rather than an entirely acquired...