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The Paducah Daily Sun
Paducah, Mccracken County, Kentucky
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At the Cambridge congress of zoology last week, Prof. Haeckel presented a paper asserting that science confirms human descent from lowest animal life over 1 billion years, classifying man as a primate sharing a common evolutionary stem with monkeys and apes. (Reported from London, Aug. 29.)
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London, Aug. 29.-At the meeting of the Cambridge congress of zoology last week, Prof. Haeckel, in a paper on the present knowledge of the descent of man, declared that science has now established with absolute certainty that man descended through various stages of evolution from the lowest form of animal life during a period estimated at 1,000,000,000 years. After going deep into the scientific features of his investigations, Prof. Haeckel says that man is a primate, and that all primates, monkeys, apes and man, descended from one common stem.
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science has established with absolute certainty that man descended through various stages of evolution from the lowest form of animal life during a period estimated at 1,000,000,000 years; man is a primate, and all primates, monkeys, apes and man, descended from one common stem.
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At the meeting of the Cambridge congress of zoology last week, Prof. Haeckel, in a paper on the present knowledge of the descent of man, declared that science has now established with absolute certainty that man descended through various stages of evolution from the lowest form of animal life during a period estimated at 1,000,000,000 years. After going deep into the scientific features of his investigations, Prof. Haeckel says that man is a primate, and that all primates, monkeys, apes and man, descended from one common stem.