. Adventures with animals and plants. Biology. S66 The Earth and Its Inhabitants Change unit x at , at eighteen minutes before mid- night. And our written history, which :;eems so long and full in the history books, is all crowded into the last three to four minutes. As you read of other fossil types examine Figure 514 again to see at what time on this clock they made their appearance. A glance at early forms. Fossils show that a manlike form referred to as the Java ape man lived between half a mil- lion and a million years ago in Java, at a time when the island was still connected with A
. Adventures with animals and plants. Biology. S66 The Earth and Its Inhabitants Change unit x at , at eighteen minutes before mid- night. And our written history, which :;eems so long and full in the history books, is all crowded into the last three to four minutes. As you read of other fossil types examine Figure 514 again to see at what time on this clock they made their appearance. A glance at early forms. Fossils show that a manlike form referred to as the Java ape man lived between half a mil- lion and a million years ago in Java, at a time when the island was still connected with Asia. His name. Pithecanthropus (pith-e-can-throw'pus) erectj/s, indicates that these men are not classified in the genus Homo. They stood about five and a half feet high; we believe that they walked erect. The skull shows that the brain was small but was much larger than that of any ape. The first skull bones that were found caused much dis- cussion. A few experts even doubted that the bones were the remains of a manlike creature. But, since the discovery of four more similar skulls, there is no longer any doubt about the existence of Java ape men. No tools of any kind were found with the bones so that we can only guess at the culture of these men. Figure 515 shows you the flattened fore- head and the large ridge over the eyes. It is believed that he had no chin and had large heavy jaws. Another early man has been named Peking man, Sinmithropiis (sin-an- throw'pus) pekine7isis. Many remains, including bones from at least forty indi- viduals, have been taken out of caves near Peiping (Peking), China. Study of the bones indicates that Peking men walked erect and wer? .similar in many Homo sapiens. First manlike forms Fig. 514 If the first ?f?a?7like fon/is appeared at 12 noon on the clock, 1,000,000 years ago, when did Homo sapiens arrive? ways to Java men; but they had a some- \\ hat larger brain. We date Peking men at about half a million years ago. On our clock it would show a
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