Word: magnon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democracy--argument perhaps a trifle subtle for Vagabondian comprehension--but at all events, worth while. Yet the Semitic Museum will no doubt win the day, for no Vagabond can resist the temptation to hear of his ancestors, and Professor Hooton in Room A will talk on the Cro-Magnon Man foremost of Vagabonds. Thus endeth the morning. And Boze Suyder is playing at Waldron's in the afternoon...
...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...
...Found buried in a cave in Rhodesia were a skull and other bones. The creature to whom they belonged was probably 6 ft. tall and walked erect. His age is dubious. Perhaps he was a primitive man who survived until a few thousand years ago.† ¶CrÔ-Magnon,Man. Many complete specimens of this race have been found in European caves. It is the first regarded as homo sapiens. The males average 6 ft. 1 in., the females 5 ft. 5 in. They existed perhaps 25,000 years ago. They stood erect, had a brain as large...
...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...